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aTCA-RN710 User's Guide
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1 Introduction
The aTCA-RN710 is a Rear Transition Module that provides 12 SFP+ service ports. The aTCA-
RN710 is designed to be paired with the aTCA-N700 Traffic Management Blade, but it can be paired
with any front blade which shares the same Zone 3 specifications.
When an ATCA front blade has high capacity processing capability requiring additional I/O ports
through the RTM, the aTCA-RN710 can meet such needs by loading aggregated 120Gbps service
ports to the front blade with SFP+ form factors for each port.
This document is intended to provide basic usage guide to customers to use the aTCA-RN710 blade.
Shown in Table 1-1 are the selected set of abbreviations that are frequently used throughout the
document.
Table 1-1 Glossary
Terms
Description
ATCA
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture
Blade
A printed circuit board assembly that plugs into a chassis
E-keying
Standard defined by PICMG useful to verify whether the ATCA
blade plugged in is compliant to the fabric link capabilities
FRU
Field Replaceable Unit
GPIO
General Purpose Input/Output
Hot-swap
Functions of replacing system components without shutting
down the system
IPMB
Intelligent Platform Management Bus
IPMB-L
IPMB Local interface
IPMC
Intelligent Platform Management Controller
IPMI
Intelligent Platform Management Interface
JTAG
Joint Test Action Group
MAC
Media Access Controller
MMC
Module Management Controller
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failure
NPU
Network Processor Unit
OOS
Out Of Service
PHY
Physical Layer
PICMG
PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
RLDRAM
Reduced Latency Dynamic RAM
RTM
Rear Transition Module
SFI
SFP+ high speed serial electrical interface
SFP
Small Form Pluggable (1G interface)
SFP+
Small Form Pluggable Plus (10G interface)
UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter