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Router Node

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If the temperature exceeds 57.5 °C (137 °F), the GRF does an automatic
system shutdown.

• Hot-swappable fan

For the GRF 16S model, the cooling fan can be replaced while the GRF is
in operation.

• Hot-swappable adapters

There are two types of adapters on the GRF: the media adapters and the
IP Switch Control Board.

The media adapters are independent of each other and can be replaced or
removed without affecting any other adapter or the operation of the GRF.

However, the IP Switch Control Board is critical to the GRF. Should this
board be unavailable, the router fails.

• Crosspoint switch

The crosspoint switch is a 16x16 (16Gb per second) or 4x4 (4Gb per
second) crossbar switch for the GRF 16S and GRF 04S, respectively, see
Figure 12 on page 27. It is the I/O path used when the media adapters
need to communicate with each other.

Figure 12. GRF Architecture

Some parts in Figure 12 need to be explained:

User Interface
Dynamic Routing Engine (Route Manager)
Configuration/Control

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CPU

QBRT

Tx

B

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fe

r

R

x

B

uf

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Serial Interface

Media Interface

RT

AT

M

OC

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MM

Combus

80 Mb/s bus
Out-of-Band

4 Gb/s Switch

IP

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O

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OC

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CPU

16MB Rx / 16MB Tx Buffers

Speed decoupling
WAN delays

QBRT Route Table Lookup

Times range from 1-2.5 µs

On-Board Processor

IP Header
Route decisions

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