Connecting The Ethernet Cables - 3Com WX3008 AC POE 8GET Installation Manual

Connecting the Ethernet Cables

Connecting an electrical Ethernet port
Follow these steps to connect an electrical Ethernet port:
Step1 Connect one end of the Ethernet cable to the electrical Ethernet port on the device and the other end to
an Ethernet interface of the peer device.
Step2 After powering on the device, check the LEDs of the fixed electrical Ethernet port. For details about the
LED description, refer to Table 1-7.
Connecting an optical Ethernet interface
Follow these steps to connect a 100/1000 Mbps optical interface:
Step1 Point the end of the optical transceiver without a release lever toward the SFP transceiver socket, verify
that the optical transceiver is not positioned upside down, and gently insert it into the socket.
Figure 3-30 Insert an optical transceiver
Step2 Identify the Rx and Tx ports on the optical transceiver and plug the two LC connectors at one end of the
fibers into the Rx and Tx ports and the LC connectors at the other end of the fiber into respectively the
Tx and Rx ports of an optical interface on the peer device.
Figure 3-31 Connect fiber connectors
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