About Fabric Cards; Installing A Fabric Card - Cisco NCS 4016 Installation Manual

Chapter 5 Installing Route Processor Cards, Fabric Cards, and Line Cards
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LED Name
RJ45
SFP+
The RP card has two buttons:
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About Fabric Cards

The Cisco NCS 4016 chassis supports 4 fabric cards (FCs), which are agnostic cross-connects based on
a flexible cell switching architecture used in a Clos configuration. FCs are called agnostic because they
will switch a cell with no knowledge of whether they belong to OTN switching or Ethernet switching.
Each fabric card hosts three fabric devices, which are equally distributed across the 16 line cards.
FCs provide the switch fabric for the routing system and perform the cross-connect function of the
routing system, connecting every LC to each other. The switch fabric receives ingress user data from one
LC slot and performs the switching necessary to route the data to the appropriate egress LC slot.
Twelve pluggable front panel connections allow a single-chassis system to migrate to a back-to-back or
multi-chassis configuration.
See the
troubleshooting, and to see the front panel of the FC card.
Physical Characteristics
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Installing a Fabric Card

This section contains the following procedures:
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Installing a Fabric Card
Prerequisites
Before performing this task, open the front door, if installed.
Additional LEDs
Acknowledge button—Push to disable audio alarms.
Lamp Test button—Push to enable a full test of all the LEDs on the chassis.
"Verifying the Installation of a Fabric Card" section on page 5-15
Height—11.05 in. (280.6 mm)
Width—1.55 in. (39.4 mm)
Depth—14.25 in. (362 mm)
Weight—7.54 lb (3.42 kg)
Installing a Fabric Card, page 5-11
Verifying the Installation of a Fabric Card, page 5-15
Cisco Network Convergence System 4000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
Description
Indicates the status of the RJ-45
Ethernet link.
Indicates the status of the SFP+
10GE ports.

About Fabric Cards

LED Colors
Green = on
Yellow = active
Green = active
for details about LEDs,
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