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Cisco Network Convergence System 4000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Chapter 5 Installing Route Processor Cards, Fabric Cards, and Line Cards
About Fabric Cards
The RP card has two buttons:
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Acknowledge button—Push to disable audio alarms.
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Lamp Test button—Push to enable a full test of all the LEDs on the chassis.
About Fabric Cards
The Cisco NCS 4016 chassis supports 4 fabric cards (FCs), which are agnostic cross-connects based on
a flexible cell switching architecture used in a Clos configuration. FCs are called agnostic because they
will switch a cell with no knowledge of whether they belong to OTN switching or Ethernet switching.
Each fabric card hosts three fabric devices, which are equally distributed across the 16 line cards.
FCs provide the switch fabric for the routing system and perform the cross-connect function of the
routing system, connecting every LC to each other. The switch fabric receives ingress user data from one
LC slot and performs the switching necessary to route the data to the appropriate egress LC slot.
Twelve pluggable front panel connections allow a single-chassis system to migrate to a back-to-back or
multi-chassis configuration.
See the
“Verifying the Installation of a Fabric Card” section on page 5-15
for details about LEDs,
troubleshooting, and to see the front panel of the FC card.
Physical Characteristics
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Height—11.05 in. (280.6 mm)
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Width—1.55 in. (39.4 mm)
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Depth—14.25 in. (362 mm)
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Weight—7.54 lb (3.42 kg)
Installing a Fabric Card
This section contains the following procedures:
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Installing a Fabric Card, page 5-11
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Verifying the Installation of a Fabric Card, page 5-15
Installing a Fabric Card
Prerequisites
Before performing this task, open the front door, if installed.
RJ45
Indicates the status of the RJ-45
Ethernet link.
Green = on
Yellow = active
SFP+
Indicates the status of the SFP+
10GE ports.
Green = active
Table 5-1
Additional LEDs
LED Name
Description
LED Colors