3COM E3 User Manual
Dual E3 Asynchronous
Transfer Mode
Network Interface Card
Getting Started Guide
Part No. 1.024.1334- 00
Dual E3 Asynchronous
®
Transfer Mode
Network Interface Card
Getting Started Guide
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Part No. 1.024.1334-00
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VERVIEW
Contacting 3Com................................................................................... 1-1
Document Conventions.......................................................................... 1-2
Product Description................................................................................ 1-2
Features............................................................................................ 1-3
Product Compatibility............................................................................. 1-3
I
NSTALLATION
Installation Tools..................................................................................... 2-1
Installation Procedure ............................................................................. 2-1
N
ETWORK INTERFACE CARD CABLING
Physical Interfaces .................................................................................. 3-1
Accessing the Command Line Interface .................................................. 3-2
E3 Port Cabling Options ......................................................................... 3-2
Cabling a Single ATM Network Interface Card................................... 3-2
Cabling Multiple Cascaded ATM Network Interface Cards ................. 3-3
Cascading Multiple NICs in the Same Chassis............................... 3-3
Cascading Single NIC’s in a Different Chassis................................ 3-4
Cascading Multiple NIC’s in a Different Chassis............................. 3-5
T
A
ECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Certification ...........................................................................................A-1
Regulatory Compliance Statements...................................................A-1
United States ...............................................................................A-1
FCC Part 15 Compliance Statement .............................................A-1
Interface Specifications...........................................................................A-2
Console Port .....................................................................................A-2
Line A and Line B E3 Ports.................................................................A-2
Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ports.................................................A-3
Current Draw..........................................................................................A-3
Environment...........................................................................................A-3
Shipping and Storage ........................................................................A-3
Operating..........................................................................................A-3
Physical Dimensions ................................................................................A-3
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This chapter provides an overview of:
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Contacting 3Com
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Document conventions
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Product description
■
Product compatibility
Contacting 3Com
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Document Conventions
These tables list conventions used throughou t this guide.
Icon Notice Type Description
Information note Information that contains important features or
Caution Information to alert you to potential damage to a
Warning Information to alert you to potential personal injury
ESD Information to alert you to take proper grounding
Convention Description
Text represented as a
screen display
Text represented as
commands
Text represented as
menu
names
sub-menu
or
.
This typeface
terminal screen, for example:
Netlogin:
This typeface
example:
setenv TCMHOME directory
This guide always gives the full form of a command in
uppercase and lowercase letters. However, you can
abbreviate comm an ds by e nte ring only the uppercase lette rs
and the appropriate value. Commands are not case-sensitive.
This typeface
within procedures, for example:
On the
instructions.
program, system, or device.
or fatality. May also alert you to potential electrical
hazard.
precautions before handling a product.
represents displays that appear on your
represents commands that you enter for
represents all menu and sub-menu names
File
menu, click
New
.
Product Description
The Dual E3 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Network Interface Card
(NIC) works in conjunction with firmware running on the HiPer Access
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