Installing Front Cards - Cisco BPX 8620 Installation And Configuration Manual

Installing the Cards

Installing Front Cards

Before following the front card installation procedure, carefully note and perform each of the following
cautionary steps:
Ground yourself before handling BPX switch cards by placing a wrist strap on your wrist and
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clipping the strap lead to the cabinet, or use the wrist strap that is connected to the cabinet.
You must use Blank Front Card and Rear Face Plates to fill/cover empty card slots to eliminate Radio
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Frequency Interference (RFI) and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and to ensure correct air flow
through the card cage.
Systems may be shipped with empty shelves, with filler cards or with plug-in cards installed. If filler
cards are installed in each slot, you must replace some of them may with functional cards. The front
cards are held captive mechanically by the Air Intake Grille and can not be removed until the lower Air
Intake Grille is released.
Do not attempt to remove a front card from the BPX switch cabinet until the Air Intake Grille is
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released and lowered or the Air Intake Grille and/or card extractors may be damaged.
Before any card is installed, always examine the chassis backplane and card cage guides for any signs
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of loose or misplaced EMI gasketing. Examine the backplane connectors for bent or damaged
connection or prepower pins.
To remove or to install a front card, use the following procedure:
Turn off all power to the BPX switch.
Step 1
Note
Locate the small access hole in the top center of the front Air Intake Grille below the card slots. For the
Step 2
location, see Figure 13-3.
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It is a good idea to turn off power when initially installing cards. When replacing cards on
an operating BPX switch, it is not necessary to turn off power because the cards are hot
pluggable.
Chapter 13 Installing the BPX Switch Cards
Release 9.3.30, Part Number 78-12907-01 Rev. E0, May 2005