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Release Notes for Cisco RF Gateway 10 in Cisco IOS Release 12.2SQ
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Contents
Contents
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Overview of Cisco RF Gateway 10 UEQAM Platform
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System Requirements, page 3
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New and Changed Information, page 6
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Important Notes, page 19
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Caveats, page 20
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Related Documentation, page 55
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 57
Note
Use the
service internal
command on the Cisco RFGW-10 only for system debugging and
troubleshooting purposes. This command should not be used in normal operation mode.
Overview of Cisco RF Gateway 10 UEQAM Platform
The Cisco RFGW-10 is a carrier-class Universal Edge QAM (UEQAM) platform that offers concurrent
support for standard and high-definition digital broadcast television, Switched Digital Video (SDV),
Video on Demand (VoD), and DOCSIS/Modular CMTS services. It is a chassis-based product based on
open standards with superior performance, capacity, power consumption, ease of management, and
scalability. All components of the Cisco RFGW-10 are designed for high availability, including dual
Supervisor and Ethernet switching line cards, 1:N Universal Edge QAM line cards, dual timing,
communication and control (TCC) line cards, dual load balancing and load sharing DC PEMs and
integrated RF switching modules.
The Cisco RFGW-10 is targeted to cable operators worldwide, and is optimized for operators requiring
carrier-class high availability solutions and wanting to collapse video and data over cable EQAM
systems into a common platform. A collapsed Universal EQAM architecture achieves the following
business benefits: EQAM resource utilization gains, cost efficiencies, rack space optimization, reduced
cost and complexity of management, and high availability for all services. The Cisco RFGW-10 is part
of the Cisco cable ecosystem, and is fully integrated and tested as part of the Cisco Digital Broadband
Delivery System (DBDS) video solution and the Cisco uBR10012 DOCSIS 3.0 and Modular CMTS
solution.
The Cisco RFGW-10 is a centralized switching architecture leveraged from the Cisco Catalyst 4500
Series switches. The Cisco RFGW-10 is a 13-rack unit, modular chassis designed for providing
front-to-back airflow and system-level redundancy. All chassis components are hot-swappable and
redundant. The chassis supports “wire-once” cabling for RF line cards and an integrated dual-zone RF
switch matrix. The Supervisor engine provides non-blocking, robust Layer 2 to Layer 4 switching with
the addition of wire-speed 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks, 136 Gbps capacity, and 102 mpps packet
throughput.
The Cisco RFGW-10 system is a UEQAM platform that supports both upstream and downstream RF line
cards over a frequency range of 5 MHz to 1.2 GHz. The initial line card release is a UEQAM downstream
card that supports the DOCSIS (1.0/2.0/3.0), the EURODOCIS, and J-DOCSIS specifications.
Additionally, the RF line card supports high definition digital broadcast television, Switched Digital
Video (SDV), and Video on Demand (VoD) video delivery.
