Overview; Chassis Overview - Cisco ASR 14000 Series Installation Manual

Overview

This installation guide describes how to install the power, air circulation, line card, and external
components into and remove them from a Cisco ASR (Aggregation Services Router) 14000 series 8-slot
line card chassis.
This chapter introduces the Cisco ASR 14000 series 8-slot line card chassis at the highest level. It
contains illustrations of the front and back of the chassis, complete with callouts to each hardware
component. For details on each subsystem discussed in this chapter, see Cisco ASR 14000 Series Router
8-Slot Line Card Chassis System Description.
This chapter presents the following topics:
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Chassis Overview

The Cisco ASR 14000 series 8-slot line card chassis routing system consists of a single rack-mount
chassis that contains the following system components:
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The Cisco ASR 14000 series 8-slot line card chassis has its own power and cooling subsystems.
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Chassis Overview
Chassis Components
Chassis Slot Numbers
Chassis Cable Management
Chassis Cooling System
Chassis Power System
Safety Guidelines
Preventing Electrostatic Discharge
Modular services cards (MSCs), also called line cards (up to eight)
Physical layer interface modules, or PLIMs (up to eight, one for each MSC)
Route processor (RP) cards (up to two)
Switch fabric cards (SFCs) (up to four)
A chassis midplane that connects MSCs to their associated PLIMs and to switch fabric cards
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