Specifications

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Chapter 2: Hardware Installation
Installing the Hardware
This section describes how to perform the following tasks:
• Check the shipping box to ensure that all the parts arrived
• Install the chassis (on a tabletop or in an equipment rack)
• Install the Control Module
• Install a memory upgrade
• Install the switching fabric module (SSR 8600 only)
• Install line cards
• Install the power supply (either AC or DC)
• Attach console management cables
• Attach port cables
Verifying Your Shipment
Before you begin installing your SSR, check your shipment to ensure that everything you
ordered arrived securely.
Caution
: To avoid back strain, be careful when lifting the chassis out of the shipping box.
Open the shipping box(es) and verify that you received the following equipment:
• An SSR 8000 or SSR 8600 chassis containing a backplane, fan module, and a console
cable. The console cable is used for connecting a terminal to the Control Module DB-9
port.
• An SSR 8000 or SSR 8600 power supply.
• One country-specific power cable per power supply.
• One Control Module.
• One Switching Fabric Module (SSR 8600 only).
• An SSR Media Kit containing:
– A CD-ROM containing user documentation and the CoreWatch software
– One PCMCIA flash card containing the SSR system software
–One copy of the SmartSwitch Router Getting Started Guide (the book you are reading
now)
– Release Notes