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Cisco ASR 14000 Series Router 8-Slot Line Card Chassis Installation Guide
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Overview
This installation guide describes how to install the power, air circulation, line card, and external
components into and remove them from a Cisco ASR (Aggregation Services Router) 14000 series 8-slot
line card chassis.
This chapter introduces the Cisco ASR 14000 series 8-slot line card chassis at the highest level. It
contains illustrations of the front and back of the chassis, complete with callouts to each hardware
component. For details on each subsystem discussed in this chapter, see
Cisco ASR 14000 Series Router
8-Slot Line Card Chassis System Description
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This chapter presents the following topics:
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Preventing Electrostatic Discharge
Chassis Overview
The Cisco ASR 14000 series 8-slot line card chassis routing system consists of a single rack-mount
chassis that contains the following system components:
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Modular services cards (MSCs), also called line cards (up to eight)
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Physical layer interface modules, or PLIMs (up to eight, one for each MSC)
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Route processor (RP) cards (up to two)
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Switch fabric cards (SFCs) (up to four)
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A chassis midplane that connects MSCs to their associated PLIMs and to switch fabric cards
The Cisco ASR 14000 series 8-slot line card chassis has its own power and cooling subsystems.