Oracle Acme Packet 4500, Hardware Installation And Maintenance Manual

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MAINTENANCE
Acme Packet 4500 Hardware Installation and Maintenance Guide 91
Caution To prevent damage to the optical lens, We recommend that
the protective dust cover stay on the optical transceiver port
when the GbE physical interface card is not cabled.
Removing an Optical
Transceiver
To remove the optical transceiver on an NIU SFP port:
1. Unplug all GbE fiber optic cables from the optical transceiver to be replaced.
Figure 6 - 128. Bale Clasps in Rest Position
2. Pull the bale clasp latch out and down. It will pivot downwards on its hinge.
Figure 6 - 129. Bale Clasp Lowered
3. Holding the extended bale clasp latch, pull the optical transceiver fully out of its
socket in the physical interface card.
Figure 6 - 130. Removing the SFP
Replacing an Optical
Transceiver To replace the optical transceiver:
1. Slide the replacement optical transceiver into the SFP socket on the NIU.
2. Flip the bale clasp latch back into the rest position.