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Cisco 10000 Series Routers Line Card Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 17 Installing and Removing Line Cards
Installing Half-Height Line Cards
Depending on which line card you have installed, go to one of the following sections:
• Installing an SFP Module or GBIC Module, page 17-27.
• Attaching Cables, page 17-32.
• Appendix A, “Cisco 10005 Extender Card Information”
Installing Half-Height Line Cards
This section describes how to install the half-height line card in the Cisco 10000 chassis. This section
includes the following tasks:
• Replacement Installation Guidelines, page 17-16
• Installing the Half-Height Line Card Carrier, page 17-16
• Installing a Half-Height Line Card Into a Carrier, page 17-21
Replacement Installation Guidelines
If you replace a line card in the same slot, the system automatically downloads the necessary
configuration information from the Processor Route Engine (PRE); you do not need to configure the new
line card. After the software downloads the information, the system recognizes only those interfaces that
match the previous line card configuration (configured as up).
Caution To avoid erroneous line card failure messages, remove or insert only one line card at a time. Also, after
you insert or remove a line card, wait at least 15 seconds before you insert or remove another line card
so that the Cisco 10000 system can reinitialize and note the current configuration of all interfaces.
Caution To prevent electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage, handle line cards by the faceplate or the card carrier
edges only. Avoid touching the line card printed circuit board, components, or any connector pins.
Installing the Half-Height Line Card Carrier
You must install the half-height line card into a slot that contains a Cisco carrier, which can hold two
half-height line cards. The two half-height line cards sharing a slot can be of any type, unless a specific,
supported redundancy situation is being created. If both slots of the carrier are not used, you must install
a carrier blank faceplate in the empty slot.
The Cisco 10000 series carrier for half-height line cards
functions in any Cisco 10000 series router
interface card slot. It supports online insertion and removal (OIR) of half-height line cards. The carrier
is supported on the following:
• All Cisco 10000 series router chassis
• All Performance Routing Engines (PREs) on the Cisco 10000 series routers
• All half-height line cards for the Cisco 10000 series routers