ASR 5000 Hardware Platform Overview  
▄ Cisco ASR 5000 Series Product Overview 
Figure 21.  Ethernet 1000 Line Card 
 
 
Quad Gigabit Ethernet Line Card 
The 4-port Gigabit Ethernet line card is commonly referred to as the Quad-GigE Line Card or the QGLC. The QGLC is 
installed directly behind its associated packet processing card to provide network connectivity to the packet data 
network. There are several different versions of Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) modules available: 
 
Table 16.  SFP Modules Supported by the QGLC