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MECHANICAL SPECIFICATIONS
The FC 6164 is a plug-and-play fabric that provides 64 user ports, and is
comprised of the following items:
• a chassis with a removable front door
• six FC Silkworm 2250 switches (Each 2250 switch has one serial port
and one Ethernet port)
• one serial cable
• six power cables
• all required ISL (inter-switch link) fiber optic cables and ISL GBICs
Chassis-level Information
The FC 6164 chassis includes cable-routing holes in the upper, lower, and
side panels for easy cable management.
A color-coded ISL cable diagram is provided on the inside bottom of the
chassis, for reference when switches or ISL cables are being replaced (see
Chapter 4, "Maintenance
Procedures", for the cable and switch replacement
procedures). Each port should be connected by the ISL cable to the other
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