
Chapter 4 - Hardware Description
IP and IP+ Network Interface Module Architecture
The IP and IP+ Network Interface Modules have the same general card structure as other MGC modules: 
Figure 4-18  shows the architecture for the IP and IP+ Network Interface Modules.
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Figure 4-19:  IP and IP+ Network Interface Module architecture
The IP and IP+ modules are accompanied with a