Conventions
•Chapter 6, “Maintaining the Cisco MGX Switch or Gateway,” provides maintenance procedures for each switch or gateway.
•Appendix A, “Front Card Specifications,” provides technical specifications for cards and modules.
•Appendix B, “Cable Specifications,” provides cabling and pinout information for cables used with each chassis and its cards.
•Appendix C, “Earthing and Bonding Recommendations,” discusses the techniques and policies that Cisco practices with regard to DC power, earthing, and bonding of Cisco equipment. It also explains why these techniques are the best practice.
•Appendix D, “Guide to Transceivers (SFPs) Used with MGX Back Cards,”summarizes the small
•The glossary defines all acronyms used throughout this guide.
Conventions
This guide uses the conventions listed in this section and in Table 1. MGX switches collectively refers to all the multiservice switches and gateways documented in this guide.
Table 1 | Conventions Used in this Guide |
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| Commands and keywords are in boldface. | This is similar to the UNIX | |
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| Also used for names of some elements in a | route command. |
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| Arguments for which you supply values are | See the Regulatory Compliance and | |
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| in italics. | Safety Information for Cisco |
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| Also used for publication names and for | Multiservice Switch Products (MGX, |
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| Terminal sessions and information the | Are you ready to continue? [Y] | |
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| The symbol ^ represents the Control key | ^D This key combination in a |
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| Elements in square brackets are optional. | [no] |
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| Nonprinting characters such as passwords | Password: <cisco123> |
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