3Com 9400 manual Overview of Cabling, Fiber Safety Precautions

3 CABLING COREBUILDER 9400 PORTS

This chapter describes how to cable your CoreBuilder® 9400 system for connection to the network. It gives an overview of cabling and describes how to cable:

■Gigabit Ethernet ports

■Console port

■Out-of-band management port

When all of your Gigabit Ethernet and system network connections are complete, see Chapter 4.

If you are staging the system, you do not need to connect it to the network at this point. See Chapter 4 to start your system before you cable it.

Overview of Cabling

The CoreBuilder 9400 system is a Gigabit Ethernet switch with this fixed configuration:

■Twelve 1000BASE-SX ports

■Twelve 1000BASE GBIC ports (LX or SX transceivers)

Fiber Safety Precautions

The CoreBuilder 9400 system uses lasers in its fiber optic ports. To ensure your safety, comply with the following precautions.

WARNING: The fiber optic lasers used in this system meet the regulatory requirements for casual exposure to the eye. As with any source of bright light, however, 3Com recommends that you do not look into the laser light source.

IEC 825, Class 1 Laser Devices are for connection only to Class 1 Laser Devices. MMF and SMF fiber optic interfaces use lasers.

CLASS 1

LASER PRODUCT