Introducing the GigaVUE-TA400 Chassis

The GigaVUE-TA400 chassis consists of a 1RU, rack-mountable, 32 of 400Gb/100Gb/ 40Gb QSFP-DD/ QSFP28/QSFP+ ports, dual hot-pluggable power supplies (AC/DC), seven hot-swappable fan modules at the rear, console port and a 10M/100M/1000M management port. The below figure shows the ports at the front of the GigaVUE-TA400 chassis. Refer to GigaVUE-TA400 Ports for a description of each of the ports.

Table 1: GigaVUE-TA400 Ports

Port

Description

Management

Use the Mgmt port for remote configuration of GigaVUE-TA400 Traffic Aggregator over a 10M/100M/1000M Ethernet network. Refer to installation guide for information on establishing an SSH configuration session with the GigaVUE-TA400 Traffic Aggregator.

Console

Use the Console port for local configuration of the GigaVUE-TA400 Traffic Aggregator over a serial connection. Refer to installation guide for information on establishing a serial configuration session with the GigaVUE-TA400 Traffic Aggregator in a terminal window.

Ports D1..D32

The GigaVUE-TA400 provides 32 400Gb/100Gb/ 40Gb QSFP-DD/ QSFP28/QSFP+ ports. All ports support 4x100G breakouts d1c1..d32c4 with QSFP-DD DR4, DR4+(XDR4) optics and 4x25G, 4x10G breakouts d1x1..d32x4 with QSFP28, QSFP+ optics. For details about the supported transceivers and cable type, refer to the “GigaVUE Interoperability Matrix”.

Transceivers

Below listed breakout connections are supported and validated.

  • 400G-DR4-QDD-511 breakout connections to 4x100G QSFP28-511-DR1

  • 400G-DR4+-QDD-512 breakout connections to 4x100G QSFP28-514-FR1

For details about the supported transceivers and cable type, refer to the GigaVUE Interoperability Matrix