Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series Hardware Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) - Manual (Page 26)

16 Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series and NetIron CER 2000 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Hardware features
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Control features
The front panel on each device has a combination of the following control features:
• Serial Management Interface (the port labeled Console)
• 10/100/1000 ports with RJ-45 copper connectors
• 100/1000 Hybrid Fiber (HF) ports
• 100/1000 ports with mini-GBIC slots for SFP MSA-compliant fiber transceivers
• Each device that optionally has up to two 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports, supports 10-Gigabit
Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) MSA-compliant optical transceivers
• Each device that has four 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports, supports 10-Gigabit Small Form
Factor Pluggable (SFP+) MSA-compliant optical transceivers
Serial Management Interface (console port)
The Serial Management Interface enables you to configure and manage the device using a
third-party terminal emulation application on a directly connected PC. A straight-through EIA/TIA
DB-9 serial cable (M/F) ships with the device. The serial management interface (the port labeled
Console) is located in the front panel.
Port LEDs
The ports on the devices provide status information using the LEDs listed in
Table 3 and Table 4 .
TABLE 3 LEDs for 10/100/1000 Mbps ports
LED Position State Meaning
10/100/1000 Port LEDs
Lnk/Act Bottom Left On Link is up.
Off Link is down.
Blinking Port is transmitting or receiving traffic
Lnk/Act Bottom Right On Link is up.
Off Link is down.
Blinking Port is transmitting or receiving traffic
NOTE: The LEDs are located beneath the port connector.