GigaVUE-TA100 Chassis
This section describes the physical layout of the GigaVUE-TA100 chassis, including a description of all ports and connectors. The GigaVUE-TA100 chassis consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 19”-wide chassis with management, network, and tool ports at the front and power connections and fans at the rear. Figure 3: The GigaVUE-TA100 Chassis Front View shows the ports at the front of the GigaVUE-TA100 chassis. Refer to Table 1: GigaVUE-TA100 Ports for a description of each of the ports. Figure 4: The GigaVUE-TA100 Chassis Rear View shows the fan modules and power supply units at the rear of the GigaVUE-TA100 chassis. Refer to Chassis Cooling for information on fans and temperature monitoring.
The GigaVUE-TA100 provides thirty-two ports, supporting high-density aggregation. Depending on the transceiver, QSFP+ or QSFP28, the ports run at speeds of either 40Gb or 100Gb. With QSFP+ transceivers, a 40Gb port can be broken out into four 10Gb ports, called 4x10G mode.
The 100Gb/40Gb ports on GigaVUE-TA100 can be used as network, tool, hybrid, or stack-link ports.
The GigaVUE-TA100 node in standalone mode must be running software version 4.6.01 or higher. The GigaVUE-TA100 node in a cluster environment must be running software version 4.8 or higher.
Figure 3: The GigaVUE-TA100 Chassis Front View
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Port |
Description |
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Mgmt |
Use the Mgmt port for remote configuration of the GigaVUE-TA100 Traffic Aggregator over a 10/100/1000 Ethernet network. |
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Console |
Use the console port for local configuration of the GigaVUE-TA100 Traffic Aggregator over a serial connection. |
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USB |
Use the USB port to upgrade software on the GigaVUE-TA100 using a software image on an external USB drive. Refer to Software Upgrade using USB Drive. |
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Ports c1..c32 or c1x1..c1x4, |
GigaVUE-TA100 includes 32 100Gb ports (c1..c32). These ports also support 40Gb speeds. Any of the 100Gb ports on the GigaVUE-TA100 can operate at 40Gb with a QSFP+ transceiver. With a QSFP+ transceiver, a port can be broken out into 4 10Gb ports, called subports. The subports will all have the same speed (10Gb). Subports will have x1 to x4 appended to their port ID, for example, 1/1/c2x1. For details, refer to Configure the Port Mode. Once a 40Gb port has been configured to operate as four 10Gb ports, cable it to an optical patch panel or breakout panel, such as PNL-M341, which takes a 40Gb QSFP+ input from the GigaVUE-TA100 and splits it to four independent 10Gb output ports. Refer to Breakout Panels. The ports accept 40Gb QSFP+ connections using QSFP+ SR or PLR4 transceivers. The ports accept 40Gb BiDi transceivers (RX-only or full duplex). RX-only BiDi only supports RX on network ports. Full Duplex (RX/TX) supports network and tool ports. |
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Transceivers |
For details about the supported transceivers and cable type, refer to the “GigaVUE-OS Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix”. |
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