Installation guide

222 Extreme Networks Consolidated "e" and "i" Series Hardware Installation Guide
BlackDiamond 6800 Series Switch Overview
BlackDiamond 6808 Switch
The BlackDiamond 6808 switch consists of the following components:
• One 10-slot chassis with backplane
• Eight I/O module slots, labeled slots 1 through 8
• Two MSM64i slots, labeled slots A and B
• Two power supply bays (accessed from the front of the unit)
• One hot-swappable fan tray containing three individual fans, accessed from the rear of the unit
• One electrostatic discharge (ESD) wrist strap connector
The BlackDiamond 6808 switch can support up to the following number of ports and types of port
configurations:
• 672 switched 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet ports
• 224 switched 100BASE-FX Fast Ethernet ports
• 96 switched Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 128 switched 1000BASE-X oversubscribed ports
• 168 switched 10/100/1000BASE-T oversubscribed ports
• 28 OC3 PoS ports
• 28 OC3 ATM ports
• 14 OC12 PoS ports
NOTE
PoS and ATM modules installed in a BlackDiamond chassis require at least one BlackDiamond Ethernet
I/O module also installed in the chassis in order to operate correctly.
Figure 122 shows the front of the BlackDiamond 6808 chassis fully populated with two MSMs and ten
I/O modules.