Cisco 10000 Series Router SIP and SPA Hardware Installation Guide
Preface

Table Of Contents

About This Guide

Objectives

Audience

Document Revision History

Organization

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines


About This Guide


This preface describes the objectives and organization of this document and explains how to find additional information on related products and services. This preface contains the following sections:

Objectives

Audience

Document Revision History

Organization

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Objectives

This document describes the SPA interface processor (SIP) and shared port adapters (SPAs) that are supported on the Cisco 10000 series router. This document also describes how to install the supported SIP and SPAs and how to troubleshoot the installation.

Audience

This document is intended for network administrators who are familiar with Cisco routers, and who will be installing and configuring SPA interface processors (SIP) and shared port adapters (SPAs) supported on the Cisco 10000 series router.

Document Revision History

Table 1 records technical changes to this document.

Table 1 Document Revision History

Cisco IOS Release
Revision
Date
Change Summary

12.2(33)SB

OL-13838-01

April 2008

First release.

12.2(33)SB2

OL-13838-03

September 2008

Introduced the following new hardware on the Cisco 10000 series router for the PRE4.

8-port Gigabit Ethernet Shared Port Adapter (SPA).

12.2(33)XNE

OL-13838-04

November 2009

Introduced the following new hardware on the Cisco 10000 series router for the PRE4.

Introduced the 2-port channelized OC-12/DS0 SPA.


Organization

This document contains the following sections:

Chapter
Title
Description

1

SIP and SPA Product Overview

Provides an introduction to the SPA interface processor (SIP) and shared port adapters (SPAs).

2

Cisco 10000 Series Router SPA Interface Processor-600

Provides a SIP and SPA compatibility summary. For each supported SIP, provides a summary of SIP characteristics.

3

Cisco 10000 Series Router Shared Port Adapters

Provides a summary of SPA characteristics for each supported SPA.

4

Preparing to Install a SIP or a SPA

Describes the required tools, equipment, and safety guidelines for installing SIPs and SPAs.

5

Installing and Removing a SIP

Describes the procedures for installing and removing a SIP on a Cisco 10000 series router.

6

Installing and Removing a SPA

Describes the procedures for installing and removing a SPA on a Cisco 10000 series router. It also describes how to verify the SIP and SPA installation.

7

Troubleshooting the Installation

Provides information for troubleshooting the installation of SIPs and SPAs. It also lists helpful debug commands and error messages.


Related Documentation

The related information listed below is available online.

Cisco 10000 Series Router SIP and SPA Software Configuration Guide

Cisco IOS software:

For Cisco IOS configuration information and support, refer to the configuration guide or command reference for a Cisco IOS mainline release. You can also refer to the specific Cisco IOS software document for a particular feature.

To see if a feature is supported by a Cisco IOS release, to locate the software document for that feature, or to check the minimum Cisco IOS software requirements with the hardware installed on your router, Cisco maintains the Software Advisor tool on Cisco.com. You must be a registered user on Cisco.com to access this tool. To access Software Advisor, click Login at Cisco.com, type Software Advisor in the Search box, and click Go. Click the link for the Software Advisor tool.


Note You can access Cisco IOS software configuration and hardware installation and maintenance documentation on the World Wide Web at http://www.cisco.com. Translated documentation is available at: http://www.cisco.com/public/countries_languages.shtml.


For international agency compliance, safety, and statutory information for WAN interfaces:

Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information for the Cisco 10000 Series Routers

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html