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Who Should Read This Guide
Who Should Read This Guide
To use this guide, you should be familiar with electronic circuitry and wiring practices and
have experience as an electronic or electromechanical technician.
This guideprovides informationspecific to initialinstallation of theATM switch processor
(ASP) and multiservice switch route processor (MSRP), which are referred to generically
as the processor card. ASP and MSRP are supported in the following systems:
• Catalyst 8510 MSR
• Catalyst 5500 switch
• LightStream 1010 ATM switch
How This Guide Is Organized
The major sections of this guide are as follows:
Chapter 1 Product Overview Describes the processor card features and components.
Chapter 2 Installing the
Appendix A Maintaining the
Appendix B Processor Card
Appendix C Processor Card Cable
Appendix D Translated Safety
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Processor Installation Guide
Processor Card
Processor Card
Specifications
and Port Pinouts
Warnings
Describes safety precautions and how to install the
processor card and confirm a successful installation.
Describes the maintenance procedures for the processor
card.
Describes the processor card specifications.
Lists the pinouts for the Ethernet cable connector and
the ports on the processor card.
Lists translations of the warnings that appear in this
guide.