About Fabric Cards - Cisco NCS 4000 Series Hardware Installation

About Fabric Cards

Table 6: Additional LEDs
LED Name
Sync
Disc
Critical
Major
Minor
Active/Standby
RJ45
SFP+

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.
The Cisco NCS 4016 chassis supports, the 200G and 400G fabric cards. The 400G fabric card enables 400G
traffic using the 400G line card. The datapath link speed of 400G FC-LC is twice that of the 200G FC-LC.
FC Name
NCS4016-FC-M (200G)
NCS4016-FC2-M (400G)
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Description
Indicates that the RP card is
receiving external sync.
Indicates that the Solid State Disk
(SSD) on the RP card is accessed.
Indicates a critical system alarm.
Indicates a major system alarm.
Indicates a minor system alarm.
Indicates that the RP card is in
active or standby mode.
Indicates the status of the RJ-45
Ethernet link.
Indicates the status of the SFP+
10GE ports.
Compatible with 200G LC
Yes
Yes
LED Colors
Green = in sync
Yellow = out of sync
Green = access occurring
Yellow = an active critical system
alarm
Yellow = an active major system
alarm
Yellow = an active minor system
alarm
Green = active
Yellow = standby
Green = on
Yellow = active
Green = active
Compatible with 400G LC
No
Yes