Introduction to the sp switch router adapter card – Lucent Technologies 9077 16S User Manual
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SP Switch Router Adapter Guide - 1.4 Update 2
October 22, 1999
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Introduction to the SP Switch Router
Adapter card
The RS/6000 SP Switch Router is based on the GRF 400 (4-card) and GRF 1600 (16-card)
routers manufactured by Lucent Technologies. For that reason, this manual contains references
to the
GRF 400/1600 Getting Started
,
GRF Reference Guide
, and
GRF Configuration and Management
manuals. The SP model of the router is referred to as the
SP Switch Router.
SP Switch Routers can be used to provide high-speed data communication links between IBM
RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP) and external networks/hosts. The SP Switch
Router Adapter card is the router media card that specifically supports SP system data
transfers. To connect to an SP system, the SP Switch Router Adapter card is cabled directly to
an SP Switch port.
Material in Chapter 1 provides a basic description of the SP Switch Router Adapter card.
Please refer to the
GRF 400/1600 Getting Started
manual for SP Switch Router system
installation procedures.
Chapter 1 covers these topics: