Cable Management System; Midplane - Cisco ASR 5500 Installation Manual

ASR 5500 Hardware Platform Overview

Cable Management System

The ASR 5500 cable management system consists of two components. The first is a tray that mounts at the
rear of the chassis immediately below the card cage. The second is a cable management bracket that mounts
to the front panel of each Management Input/Output card (MIO/UMIO).
Network cables are fed from either side or both sides of the tray and are then routed to the MIO/UMIO ports.
The cables are secured to the cable management brackets on the MIO/UMIOs via cable ties or hook-and-loop
straps, and within the cable management tray via hook-and-loop straps.

Midplane

The midplane within the ASR 5500 chassis interconnects rear input/output ports and processing cards with
front fabric cards. The larger rear cards support chassis management, input/output, and session processing.
The smaller front cards provide fabric crossbars, persistent storage and system status monitoring.
The rear slots have a common midplane connector that is shared between the supported cards. This allows
for different mixes of input/output and processing capacity depending on the customer's intended use. The
two MIO/UMIO slots (5 and 6) have additional midplane connections to perform chassis control operations,
including support for a serial Console port and dual remote management ports.
Figure 4: ASR 5500 Midplane Buses
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