Enterasys Networks CSX7000, CSX5500, CSX6000 manual Flat Bus Ribbon Cable

HARDWARE INSTALLATION

Connecting Adapter Inter-Board Cables

If you have PRI-23/30 cards: Use an MVIP bus connection between cards whenever possible to achieve the best results. This applies to both:

•multiple PRI-23/30 configurations

•PRI-23/30 cards in combination with DM cards

If you have only PRI-23 cards: Use a TDM bus between WAN cards and an MVIP bus to connect to the DM. (I.e., connect all TDM connectors to other TDM connectors, and all MVIP connectors to other MVIP connectors within the system.)

If you have a mixture of PRI-23 cards and PRI-23/30 cards: Use both a TDM bus and an MVIP bus. Connect all TDM connectors to other TDM connectors, and all MVIP connectors to other MVIP connectors within the system.

If you have BRI, PRI-8 or Expander cards: You must use a TDM bus. If you also have a DM card in your configuration but no PRI-23 or PRI-23/30, you will need to use a crossover cable to connect the TDM bus to the MVIP connector of the DM card.

To establish the inter-board bus, you’ll need a flat bus cable and possibly a crossover cable.

The flat bus cable is a 40-pin ribbon cable. The cable can have from 2 to 6 connectors, depending on the adapter configuration of the CyberSWITCH. The ribbon cable connectors are spaced approximately 1 inch apart to mate with the adapter connectors. Never cut a flat cable to shorten it.

40-wire	40-wire
ribbon cable	ribbon cable

pin 1	4 adapter bus	2 adapter bus
		connectors
	connectors

Flat Bus (Ribbon) Cable

Some flat cables consist of a primarily grey ribbon, with a single red wire to indicate pin 1. These are essentially the same as the flat bus cable pictured.

Interconnect all the adapters with the same connectors using one flat bus cable of an appropriate length. If your installation combines cards that have TDM-only connectors with cards that have MVIP-only connectors, you will need to use a crossover cable.

The crossover cable is a 12-wire ribbon cable with 40-pin connectors. You only need the crossover cable if all the following conditions are true:

•a Digital Modem adapter is present,

•BRI-4, or PRI-8 is present, and

•no PRI-23 or PRI-23/30 is present

Notice that the crossover cable connects between two flat cables. When connecting the crossover cable to the flat cable, align pin 1 on both connectors. Pin 1 is identified by an embossed triangle on the underside of each connector.

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