Lucent Technologies 9077 04S, 9077 16S SP Switch Router systems for IBM sites, SP Switch cable

Introduction to the SP Switch Router Adapter card

SP Switch Router systems for IBM sites

By using the appropriate SP Switch Router Adapter card, the SP system can connect to FDDI, fast Ethernet, HSSI, ATM OC-3c, ATM OC-12c, SONET OC-3c, and HIPPI networks and hosts, depending upon which other media cards are installed in the SP Switch Router chassis.

The SP Switch Router supports these connection options:

–a single SP Switch Router Adapter card can be installed in an SP Switch Router

–multiple SP Switch Router Adapter cards can be installed in an SP Switch Router

–more than one card can connect to the same SP system

–a single SP Switch Router can connect to one or multiple SP systems

Each option requires unique IP addressing and network configuration. Appendix C contains examples of specific SP system–SP Switch Router networks. See the IBM documentation related to planning for the SP Switch Router for more information.

SP Switch Router systems for IBM sites

The SP Switch Router Adapter media card communicates directly with the SP. In the SP system configuration, the SP Switch Router Adapter media card is treated as a dependent node and is assigned a node number. There is only one node number address space in the SP system, and traditional SP nodes and dependent nodes are both assigned node numbers from that address space.

You may be given references to models 9076 and 9077:

–Model 9076 is the IBM SP system.

–Model 9077 04S is the 4-card SP Switch Router.

–Model 9077 16S is the 16-card SP Switch Router.

This manual uses SP system and SP Switch Router, respectively, as system names.

Cables included in your system

SP Switch cable

The SP Switch Router Adapter media card connects to an SP Switch via an SP Switch cable. Make sure the shipping box contains one ten- or twenty-meter cable for each SP Switch Router Adapter card you receive. If there is no cable, contact your IBM representative and order the special cable required by the SP Switch Router Adapter media card from IBM:

•SP Switch cable, 10m (IBM P/N 46H9699)

•SP Switch cable, 20m (IBM P/N 46H9701)

Although it has 50-pin connector ends, the specified cable has custom signal wiring so that other 50-pin cables cannot be substituted.

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