Chapter 3
T1 and E1 Feature Cards
Installing the T1 or E1 Feature Card
Do not work on the system or connect or disconnect cables during periods of lightning activity.
Warning
Statement 1001
Warning
The E1 interface card may only be installed in an ACA-permitted customer equipment or a Data
Terminal Equipment (DTE) that is exempted from ACA's permit requirements. The customer equipment
must only be housed in a cabinet that has screw-down lids to stop user access to overvoltages on the
customer equipment. The customer equipment has circuitry that may have telecommunications
network voltages on them. Statement 90
The telecommunications lines must be disconnected 1) before unplugging the main power connector
Warning
and/or 2) while the housing is open. Statement 89
When you replace a feature card in a slot with a new feature card of the same type, the system software
Note
recognizes the new feature card and brings up the trunk interfaces automatically. If you replace the
existing feature card with a new feature card of a different type, you must reconfigure the system. For
configuration details, see the
Configuration
To install the T1 or E1 feature card, follow these steps:
Attach an ESD-preventive wrist strap.
Step 1
Slide the feature card into the slot until the connector pins make contact with the carrier card backplane
Step 2
connector. (See
Figure 3-11
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Figure 3-11
and
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Installing the T1 or E1 Feature Card in the Cisco AS5350XM Universal Gateway
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