Tadiran Telecom Coral IPx 500, Installation Manual

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Coral IPx 500 Installation Manual
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Coral IPx 500
This chapter describes the layout and configuration of the Coral IPx 500 system. For a
general description of the Coral IPx 500 cage, see
page 6-1, General System Description
and Installation . For a more detailed description of the main cage, see page 6-21, Coral
IPx 500M Main Cage
. For a more detailed description of the expansion cage, see
page 6-33, Coral IPx 500X Expansion Cage .
The Coral IPx 500 can operate as a system in any one of the following configurations:
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One main IPx 500M cage. See
Figure 6-34
.
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One main IPx 500M cage and one IPx 500X expansion cage. See Figure 6-35 .
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One main IPx 500M cage and two IPx 500X expansion cages. See Figure 6-36 .
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One main IPx 500M cage and one IPx 800X expansion cage. See Figure 6-37 .
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One main IPx 500M cage, one IPx 500X cage, and one IPx 800 cage. See Figure
6-38 .
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One main IPx 500M cage and two IPx 800X expansion cages. See
Figure 6-39
.
The main cage includes control cards and peripheral cards. The expansion cage or
cages include peripheral cards.
Main Cage (IPx 500M)
The main cage is designated as the common control cage, and is used to house the
common control cards. For further information, refer to
Chapter 8, x Common Control
Cards . In addition, the main cage houses eight universal peripheral special form-factor
cards as well. Each of the Coral IPx 500 configurations includes one IPx 500M cage. For
more detailed information about the main cage, refer to
page 6-21, Coral IPx 500M Main
Cage .
1 General Description