Overview of Shared Port Adapters
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Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter Overview
The Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter is a single-wide, half-height shared port adapter that provides
DOCSIS network formatting to downstream data packets. It is used for only downstream data traffic. The
Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter is a key component for the Cisco IOS features, DOCSIS 3.0
Downstream Channel Bonding and DOCSIS M-CMTS network architecture. The base hostboard is the
Cisco 10000 Series SPA Interface Processor-600. Each Cisco 10000 Series SPA Interface Processor-600
jacket can host four Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter cards. The Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared
Port Adapter has six controllers. The Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter supports only the 10G
mode.
In the Cisco IOS Release 12.2(33)SCI, the Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter uses the same
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hardware as the Cisco 3 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter. Upgrade the software on the
field-programmable device (FPD) to the Cisco 3 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter to configure it as
a Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter.
Each Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter has three Gigabit Ethernet ports (no redundant port). The
first two Gigabit Ethernet ports on the SPA can be used as a 10 Gigabit Ethernet port (one active and one
redundant). The Gigabit Ethernet ports are used to send traffic to one or more external edge QAM devices.
The last Gigabit Ethernet port (1G port) cannot be used on the Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter
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as it does not support the 10G mode.
Figure 11: Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter Faceplate
The Cisco uBR10012 router can support up to two Cisco 10000 Series SPA Interface Processor-600 jackets
and eight Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapters. Each Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter
card supports up to 144 RF channels and hence a total of 1152 RF channels are supported with eight
Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapters with some level of oversubscription.
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Cisco uBR10012 Universal Broadband Router SIP and SPA Hardware Installation Guide
Cisco 6 Gbps Wideband Shared Port Adapter Overview
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