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Cisco RF Gateway 10 Hardware Installation Guide
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Overview
The Cisco RF Gateway 10 (RFGW-10) is a Carrier Class Universal Edge QAM (UEQAM) platform that
offers concurrent support for Standard and High Definition Digital Broadcast Television, Switched
Digital Video (SDV), Video on Demand (VoD), and DOCSIS/Modular CMTS services.
The Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM is a chassis-based product that is based on open standards with superior
performance, capacity, power consumption, ease of management and scalability. All components of the
Cisco RFGW-10 UEQAM are designed for high availability including dual Supervisor and Ethernet
switching line cards, N:1 Universal Edge QAM line cards, dual Timing and Control line cards, dual load
balancing and load sharing Direct Current Power Entry Modules (DC PEMs) and integrated RF
switching modules.
The Cisco RFGW-10 is part of the Cisco Cable ecosystem, and is fully integrated and tested as part of
the Cisco Digital Broadband Delivery System (DBDS) video solution and Cisco uBR10012 DOCSIS 3.0
and Modular CMTS solution.
The Cisco RFGW-10 is a centralized switching architecture leveraged from the Cisco Catalyst 4500
Series switches. The Cisco RFGW-10 is a 13 rack unit carrier class, modular chassis designed for
providing front-to-back airflow and system level redundancy. All chassis components are hot-swappable
and redundant. The chassis supports “wire-once” cabling for RF line cards and an integrated dual-zone
RF switch matrix. The supervisor engine provides non-blocking, Layer 2 to Layer 4 switching with the
addition of wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, 136-Gbps capacity, and 102-mpps packet
throughput.
The Cisco RFGW-10 system is a UEQAM that supports both upstream and downstream RF cards over a
frequency range of 5 MHz to 1.2 GHz. The initial line card release is a UEQAM downstream card that
supports the DOCSIS (1.0/2.0/3.0), the EURODOCIS, and J-DOCSIS specifications.
Based on the Cisco IOS networking software, the Cisco RFGW-10 supports advanced switching and
routing features.
This document contains the following sections:
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Cisco RFGW-10 Features, page 1-2
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Cisco RFGW-10 Functional Overview, page 1-2
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Cisco RFGW-10 IOS Software, page 1-4
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Cisco RFGW-10 Hardware, page 1-5
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Cisco RFGW-10 Components, page 1-7
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