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Cisco 12000 Series Router SIP and SPA Hardware Installation Guide
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Overview: Cisco 12000 Series Router Shared Port
Adapters
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This chapter describes the shared port adapters (SPAs) that are supported on the Cisco 12000 Series
Router and contains the following sections:
• SPA Summary, page 2-1
• Bandwidth Oversubscription, page 2-3
• 2-Port and 4-Port T3/E3 Serial SPA Overview, page 2-4
• 2-Port and 4-Port Channelized T3 to DS0 SPA Overview, page 2-6
• 8-Port Channelized T1/E1 SPA Overview, page 2-8
• 8-Port Fast Ethernet SPA Overview, page 2-10
• 1-Port 10-Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 2-12
• 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 2-15
• 5-Port Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 2-19
• 10-Port Gigabit Ethernet SPA Overview, page 2-23
• 1-Port Channelized STM-1/OC-3 SPA Overview, page 2-27
• 1-Port OC-48c/STM-16 POS SPA Overview, page 2-30
• 1-Port OC-192c/STM-64 POS SPA Overview, page 2-33
• 1-Port OC-192c/STM-64 POS RPR XFP SPA Overview, page 2-37
• 2-Port OC-48 POS RPR SPA Overview, page 2-42
• 2-Port, 4-Port, and 8-Port OC-3c/STM-1 and OC-12c/STM-4 POS SPA, 4-Port OC-3c/STM-1 POS
SPA, and 8-Port OC-3c/STM-1 POS SPA Overview, page 2-44
SPA Summary
Table 2-1 shows the summary descriptions of the SPAs that are supported on the Cisco 12000 Series
Router.