Product specifications
4 Cisco Switches
This section describes the procedures for configuring and recovering the Cisco switch in the Avid ISIS
environment. Avid has qualified the Cisco Catalyst
®
4900M and 4948E switches. The Cisco switches do not come
preconfigured with Avid configurations. All Cisco switches need to be configured for your environment by your
network administrator.
Sample Avid configuration files for Cisco 4900M and 4948E switches are included in the Installer link of the
Management Console.
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The Avid configuration file is provided in the Avid ISIS software kit in the following location:
[drive]:\Switch
Configuration\ISIS x000\Cisco\49xx\
.
Accessing the Cisco Switch
The Avid configuration in the Cisco switch supports the following configurations:
• A single Cisco switch supports up to 48 1 Gb clients.
- A Catalyst 4900M comes with 8 x 10 Gb ports and supports a maximum of 40 x 1 Gb ports.
- A Catalyst 4948E and Catalyst 4948-10GE comes with 48 x 1 Gb copper ports and 4 x 10 Gb/1 Gb
optical ports (a cascaded configuration is shown in
“Sample Cisco Switch Configuration” on page 79).
• A cascaded Cisco switch configuration supports up to 88 clients (see
“Sample Cisco Switch Configuration”
on page 79
).
• When using an additional Engine (second Avid ISIS Engine), a 10 Gb connection is required between the
Cisco switch and Engines.
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The 10 Gb connection requires the optional 10 Gb modules to be installed in the switch. For information on
installing the 10 Gb modules in the Cisco switch, see the Cisco documentation.
Two methods for accessing the switch are described in the following sections.
•
“Configuring the Cisco Switch Through the Serial Port” on page 75
• “Configuring the Cisco Switch Through a Network Connection” on page 80
Configuring the Cisco Switch Through the Serial Port
A serial connection can be used to access the Cisco switch configuration file. This is done with an Ethernet cable
and the following.
• A laptop (or computer) connected to the Console port of the Cisco switch
• A terminal emulation application such as xterm, Terminator, or PuTTY