Before you begin
Ensure that before you handle any switch components, you are wearing a grounded electrostatic discharge
(ESD) strap. To ground the strap, attach it directly to earth ground or to a grounded rack or chassis. There
must be a metal-to-metal connection to earth ground.
Step 1
Remove the fiber-optic cables from the transceiver module before removing the transceiver module.
Step 2
Use the wide side of the optics extraction tool to release the bale latch (see the following image).
Step 3
Use the narrow end of the optics extraction tool to carefully remove the transceiver module (see the following
image).
Step 4
Place the transceiver module in an antistatic bag or other protective environment.
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Connecting the Switch to the ACI Fabric
Optic Transceiver Removal Using the Optics Extraction Tool