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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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