Cisco Mgx 8950 Switch; Mgx 8950 Switch Overview; Figure 1-19 Rcon-1To3-8850 Rcon Connector - Cisco MGX MGX 8800 Hardware Installation Manual

Cisco MGX 8950 Switch

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Cisco MGX 8950 Switch
The MGX 8950 multiservice core switch was introduced in May 2002 on MGX Release 2.1.76.

MGX 8950 Switch Overview

The MGX 8950 multiservice switch is a high-capacity ATM backbone switch that provides the following
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RCON-1TO3-8850 RCON Connector
Scalability up to 180-Gbps fully redundant nonblocking throughput within a single chassis
Industry-leading broadband density
Aggregation of OC-3C/STM-1, OC-12Cc/STM-4, and OC-48c/STM-16 trunks
Highest network availability in the industry
Single-platform support for permanent virtual circuits/paths (PVCs/PVPs), soft permanent virtual
circuits/paths (SPVCs/SPVPs), switched virtual circuits/paths (SVCs/SVPs), label virtual circuits
(LVCs), PNNI, and MPLS
High-density broadband ATM
Scaling MPLS services
Convergence of voice and data networks
Provides up to 240 Gbps of switching capacity through the backplane, using four dedicated switch
fabric modules (XM60s), each containing 60 Gbps of cross-bar switching fabric
Can use either an AC or a DC power source
Installing or Removing Redundancy Connectors, page
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Chapter 1 Product Overviews
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