Cables and Pin Assignments A-1
Appendix A
Cables and Pin Assignments
This appendix provides cable and connector specifications for all SmartEdge
®
1200 cables and connectors
for the following cables:
• Management Access Cables
• External Timing Cables
• Traffic Card Cables
• Transceiver-Based Gigabit Ethernet Traffic Card Cables
Management Access Cables
A management access cable connects a console terminal, management workstation, or modem to a port on
a controller card or the chassis. Table A-1 lists the cables for the system management ports.
Pin assignments for the following cables are provided:
• Craft Console Cable
• Ethernet Crossover Cable
Note In the descriptions that follow, the term, controller card, refers to any version of the
Cross-Connect Route Processor (XCRP) Controller card (XCRP, XCRP3, XCRP4), unless
otherwise noted.
The term, Gigabit Ethernet, applies to any Ethernet traffic card that supports a port speed of
1 Gbps or greater; unless explicitly stated, the speed of any Gigabit Ethernet port is 1 Gbps.
Table A-1 Cable Specifications for Management Access Cables
Maximum Length
1
1. The maximum cable length for RS-232 cables is for any baud rate.
Name Description System Connectors Cable Connector Feet Meters
Craft console cable RS-232 DB-9 female DB-9 male 35.0 10.7
Ethernet crossover cable Category 5 shielded twisted-pair RJ-45 female RJ-45 male 328.1 100.0
Ethernet straight cable Category 5 shielded twisted-pair RJ-45 female RJ-45 male 328.1 100.0
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