Nortel Networks 8692SF manual Important Information about the Ethernet Routing Switch

Important Information about the Ethernet Routing Switch

8600 Enterprise enhanced CPU daughter card

The Ethernet Routing Switch 8692SF Enterprise enhanced CPU daughter card (Supermezz) is a mezzanine daughter card for the 8692SF module. The daughter card consists of dual 1 GHz Power PC processors. Installing the daughter card to an 8692SF module offloads processor-intensive tasks from the 333 MHz processor located on the 8692SF CPU motherboard.

With Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 Series Release 4.1, the daughter card provides decreased convergence times for large forwarding tables as well as a better scaling and performance number.

Note: If you choose the 8692SF CPU daughter card option and have a system with two Ethernet Routing Switch 8692SF modules, you must install the daughter card on each of the 8692SF modules.

The daughter card installation kit includes a CPU daughter card and associated installation hardware, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Daughter card installation kit

Contents of installation kit:

1 = CPU daughter card

2 = Hex key

3 = Socket head screws (qty 2) 2-56 x .625

4 = Socket head screws (qty 2) 2-56 x .188

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