Introducing the GigaVUE‑TA200E Chassis

This section describes the physical layout of the GigaVUE‑TA200E chassis, including a description of all ports and connectors. The GigaVUE‑TA200E chassis consists of a 2RU, rack-mountable, 19”-wide chassis with management, network, and tool ports at the front and power connections and fans at the rear. 1 shows the ports at the front of the GigaVUE‑TA200E chassis.

 

Refer to Table 3: GigaVUE‑TA200E Ports for a description of each of the ports. 2 shows the fan modules and power supply units at the rear of the GigaVUE‑TA200E chassis. Refer to Chassis Cooling for information on fans and temperature monitoring.

 

The GigaVUE‑TA200E provides sixty-four ports, supporting high-density aggregation depending on the transceivers QSFP+ or QSFP28. The ports run at speeds of either 40Gb or 100Gb. With QSFP28 SR4 transceivers, a 100Gb port can be broken out into four 25Gb ports, called 4x25G mode.

With 40Gb SR4, 40Gb ESR4 and PLR4QSFP+ transceivers (QSF-502, QSF-507, and QSF-506 respectively), a 40Gb port can be broken out into four 10Gb ports, called 4x10Gb mode

1 The GigaVUE‑TA200E Chassis Front View

2 The GigaVUE‑TA200E Chassis Rear View

GigaVUE‑TA200E Ports and Description

Table 3: GigaVUE‑TA200E Ports

Port

Description

Management

Use the Mgmt port for remote configuration of the GigaVUE‑TA200E Traffic Aggregator over a 1000 ethernet network.

Console

Use the console port for local configuration of the GigaVUE‑TA200E Traffic Aggregator over a serial connection.

USB

The USB port is not supported.

Ports c1.....c64

o c1x1.....c1x4 to c32x1......c32x4

GigaVUE‑TA200E includes 64 100Gb ports (c1..c64). These ports also support 40Gb speeds.

The 40Gb/100Gb ports on the GigaVUE-TA200E can be broken out into four 10Gb/25Gb ports, called subports.

The subports will all have the same speed(10Gb/25Gb). Subports will have x1 to x4 appended to their portID, for example, 1/1/c2x1.

Once a 40Gb/100Gb port has been configured to operate as four 10Gb/25Gb ports, cable it to an optical patch panel or breakout panel, such as PNL-M341,which takes input from the GigaVUE-TA200E and splits it to four independent 10Gb/25Gb output ports.

Port breakout is supported on the first 32 ports(ports c1..c32), When you use ports c1..c32 for port breakout, there is an impact on the ports in the lower row of the GigaVUE-TA200E.

In the following list, ensure that the ports on the right do not have any configurations when you use the port on the left for port breakout:

Example :-

● Fanout C1 → C33 Disabled
● Fanout C3 → C35 Disabled
● Fanout C21 → C53 Disabled
● Fanout C31 → C63 Disabled
● Fanout C2 → C34 Disabled
● Fanout C4 → C36 Disabled
● Fanout C24 → C56 Disabled
● Fanout C32 → C64 Disabled

For example, if you use c1 for port breakout, ports c33 will be inactive. Ensure that the ports on the right side are disabled. You will receive an error message, if you try, for example ,to breakout port c1 when c33 is enabled.

Pseudo-Slots

GigaVUE‑TA200E supports pseudo-slots . The mapping of pseudo-slots is as follows:

Pseudo-slot 1 – 1/1/c9..c12, 1/1/c21..c24, 1/1/c41..c44, 1/1/c53..c56

Pseudo-slot 2 – 1/1/c1...c8, 1/1/c33...c40

Pseudo-slot 3 - 1/1/c13..c20, 1/1/c45..c52

Pseudo-slot 4 -1/1/c25..c32, 1/1/c57..c64

To view the CLI output of above use the command show pseudo-slot portmap box-id

Transceivers

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