GigaVUE-TA40 Chassis

This section describes the physical layout of the GigaVUE-TA40 chassis, including a description of all ports and connectors. The GigaVUE-TA40 chassis consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 19”-wide chassis with management, network, and tool ports at the front and power connections at the rear. Figure 1: The GigaVUE-TA40 Chassis shows the ports at the front of the GigaVUE-TA40 chassis. Refer to Table 1: GigaVUE-TA40 Ports for a description of each of the ports.

Figure 1

The GigaVUE-TA40 Chassis

Table 1: GigaVUE-TA40 Ports

Port

Description

Mgmt

Use the Mgmt port for remote configuration of the GigaVUE-TA40 Traffic Aggregator over a 10/100/1000 Ethernet network.

Console

Use the console port for local configuration of the GigaVUE-TA40 Traffic Aggregator over a serial connection.

Ports q1..q32

GigaVUE-TA40 includes 32 40Gb ports (q1..q32). The 40Gb ports can be used as a 40Gb ingress port, or, as a high-speed tool port for aggregated output to a matching 40Gb port on a GigaVUE H Series node.

From software version 5.5, GigaVUE-TA40 supports 4x10G breakout at port level. Port breakout mode in GigaVUE-TA40 is configured as follows:

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24 out of the 32 ports provide 4x10Gb breakout support. The first 12 ports and the last 12 ports provide support for breakout functionality (with 96 sub-ports operating as 10Gb ports:)

Ports q1 to q12 and q21 to q32 support breakout functionality

Ports q13 to q20 do not support breakout functionality

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After breakout, sub-ports (breakout ports) are named as q1x1….q1x4, q2x1...q2x4 (similar to other hardware platforms) to support the breakout functionality.

Transceivers

For details about the supported transceivers and cable type, refer to the “GigaVUE-OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix”.