Chapter 1
Cisco ASR 9000 Series Line Card Product Overview
10-Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards
4-Port 10-Gigabit Ethernet Line Card with XFP
The 4-Port 10-Gigabit Ethernet (GE) line card provides four cages for XFP Ethernet optical interface
modules that operate at a rate of 10 Gbps. The four XFP modules can be 10GE Ethernet multimode
connections.
Table A-14
summarizes the optics and connectors used by the 4-Port 10GE line card.
The 4-Port 10GE line card is available in base, extended, and low-queue versions. All versions are
functionally equivalent, but vary in configuration scale and buffer capacity.
Each XFP cage on the 4-Port 10GE line card has an adjacent Link LED visible on the front panel. The
Link LED indicates the status of the associated XFP port, as described in
Status LEDs, page
3-2.
Figure 1-3
shows the line card front panel and LEDs.
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