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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 form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers used with MGX back cards.

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

 

 

 

 

 

Convention

 

Definition

Sample

 

 

 

 

boldface font

 

Commands and keywords are in boldface.

This is similar to the UNIX

 

 

 

Also used for names of some elements in a

route command.

 

 

 

graphical user interface (GUI).

 

 

 

 

 

italic font

 

Arguments for which you supply values are

See the Regulatory Compliance and

 

 

 

in italics.

Safety Information for Cisco

 

 

 

Also used for publication names and for

Multiservice Switch Products (MGX,

 

 

 

BPX, and SES) for further details.

 

 

 

emphasis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

screen font

 

Terminal sessions and information the

Are you ready to continue? [Y]

 

 

 

system displays are in screen font.

 

 

 

 

boldface screen

Information you must enter is in boldface

Login: root

font

 

screen font.

Password: <password>

 

 

 

 

 

^

 

 

The symbol ^ represents the Control key

^D This key combination in a

 

 

 

labeled Ctrl.

screen display means hold down the

 

 

 

 

Control key while you press the

 

 

 

 

D key.

 

 

 

 

 

[

]

 

Elements in square brackets are optional.

[no] offset-list {in out} offset

 

 

 

Also used for default responses to system

 

 

 

 

prompts.

 

 

 

 

 

{x y z}

 

Alternative keywords are grouped in braces

offset-list {in out} offset

 

 

 

and separated by vertical bars.

 

 

 

 

 

 

<

>

 

Nonprinting characters such as passwords

Password: <cisco123>

 

 

 

are in angle brackets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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