Cisco Systems 78-17630-01 appendix Multirate, Optical, and Transponder Cards

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Slot Property Information—FC_MR-4, FMEC,

Multirate, Optical, and Transponder Cards

This appendix provides information on the cards supported in CTM. This appendix contains the following sections:

•D.1 FC_MR-4 Card, page D-1

•D.2 FMEC Cards, page D-7

•D.3 Multirate Cards, page D-17

•D.4 Optical Cards, page D-66

•D.5 Transponder Cards, page D-213

Note In the CTM GUI, read-only fields have a gray background.

Caution Refer to the appropriate hardware documentation before attempting to set thresholds on ONS 1580x boards. See 1.7 Related Documentation, page 1-45.

D.1 FC_MR-4 Card

This section describes the FC_MR-4 card supported within CTM.

D.1.1 Slot Properties—FC_MR-4

The Slot Properties pane displays information about the Cisco ONS 15454 SONET or ONS 15454 SDH card slot that is selected in the NE Explorer tree. Use this property sheet to change the card properties.

The Fiber Channel 4-port (FC_MR-4) card is a 1.0625- or 2.125-Gbps Fiber Channel/Fiber Connectivity (FICON) card that integrates non-SONET or non-SDH framed protocols into a SONET or SDH time-division multiplexing (TDM) platform through virtually concatenated payloads.

The FC_MR-4 card uses pluggable Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICs) to transport non-SONET/SDH-framed, block-coded protocols over SONET/SDH in virtually concatenated or contiguously concatenated payloads. The FC_MR-4 can transport fiber channel over SONET/SDH using fiber-channel client interfaces and allows transport of one of the following at a time:

Cisco Transport Manager Release 7.2 User Guide

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