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ION x6010 User Guide
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All management traffic between the IONMM and the remote S6010 are relayed and forwarded through
the local C6010. Traffic between the IONMM and C6010 is exchanged on the ION chassis’ backplane
Ethernet bus (BPC), while traffic between the local C6010 and remote S6010 is exchanged on the specific
management channel (see figure below) .
Fiber port
Fiber port
Copper port
Copper port
IONMM
C6010
S6010
Backplane Ethernet Bus
Chassis
management channel
Figure 7: x6010 Remote Management Topology
Remote devices are detected by the IONMM through the internal LLDP protocol. Each time a remote de-
vice is powered up, it periodically sends out an LLDP packet to notify the IONMM that it is up.
When the IONMM receives such LLDP packets, it updates the entire ION topology based on the infor-
mation carried in the LLDP packet.
