Page 2 - Product Description
Chapter 1 Product Overview Product Description 1-2 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 These two router models are differentiated by the switching capacity of the switch fabric installed in the router: • Cisco 12006 Router—2.5-Gbps switch fabric • Cisc...
Page 7 - Physical and Functional Description; Chassis; RP and Line Card Slots
1-7 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Physical and Functional Description Physical and Functional Description The main physical components of Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 routers and their functions are described in the foll...
Page 8 - Switch Fabric Card Slots; Alarm Card Slots; Chassis Backplane
Chapter 1 Product Overview Chassis 1-8 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Switch Fabric Card Slots The switch fabric circuitry resides in five fabric card slots: two for CSCs and three for SFCs. (See Figure 1-1 .) For more information about the role o...
Page 9 - Power; Cooling
1-9 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Chassis Power Because a Cisco 12006 or Cisco 12406 Router can be configured with either an AC-input power system or a DC-input power system, the power module bays will accept either AC-...
Page 10 - Multigigabit Crossbar Switch Fabric; Switch Fabric Card Types
Chapter 1 Product Overview Multigigabit Crossbar Switch Fabric 1-10 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Multigigabit Crossbar Switch Fabric Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 router switch fabric circuity provides synchronized gigabit-speed interconnections f...
Page 11 - Nonredundant and Redundant System Configurations
1-11 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Multigigabit Crossbar Switch Fabric • System clock—The system clock synchronizes data transfers between line cards or between the RP and a line card, through the switch fabric. In syst...
Page 12 - Switch Fabric Switching Capacity and Router Type; Switch Fabric Redundancy
Chapter 1 Product Overview Multigigabit Crossbar Switch Fabric 1-12 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Switch Fabric Switching Capacity and Router Type The Cisco 12006 Router is based on a 2.5-Gbps switch fabric, where each CSC or SFC provides a 2.5-G...
Page 13 - Maintenance Bus; Device Discovery
1-13 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Maintenance Bus Maintenance Bus The Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 router maintenance bus and MBus modules manage the maintenance functions of the system. The MBus is integrated into the ...
Page 14 - Code Download
Chapter 1 Product Overview Maintenance Bus 1-14 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Code Download A portion of the line card operating software can be downloaded from the RP to the line card over the MBus. Because the MBus is relatively slow compared t...
Page 15 - Route Processors; Route Processor Functions
1-15 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors Route Processors Each Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 router has one main system (or route) processor. The route processor (RP) processes the network routing protocols and...
Page 16 - Route Processor Types; Gigabit Route Processor
Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors 1-16 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Route Processor Types Two types of RPs are available for Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 routers, the Gigabit Route Processor (GRP), and the Performance Route Processor (P...
Page 19 - DRAM; Type
1-19 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors GRP Memory Components Table 1-1 lists the memory components on the GRP. Figure 1-5 shows the location of the DRAM and Flash SIMM on the GRP. DRAM The EDO DRAM on the G...
Page 20 - SRAM; NVRAM; Flash Memory; Total DRAM
Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors 1-20 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Caution To prevent memory problems, DRAM DIMMs must be 3.3-volt (V), 60-nanosecond (ns) devices. Do not install other devices in the DIMM sockets. Cisco recommends tha...
Page 21 - System Status LEDs
1-21 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors Flash memory also functions as a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server to allow other servers to boot remotely from stored images or to copy them into their own...
Page 22 - Soft Reset Switch
Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors 1-22 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Figure 1-7 GRP Alphanumeric LED Displays (Partial Faceplate) The alphanumeric LED displays router status messages: • Router status messages that are displayed during t...
Page 23 - PCMCIA Slots
1-23 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors For example, when the boot field of the software configuration register is set to 0x0 and you press the NMI switch, the GRP remains at the ROM monitor prompt (rommon&g...
Page 24 - Ethernet Port
Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors 1-24 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Note EIA/TIA-232 is also referred to as RS-232. The auxiliary port is an EIA/TIA-232 plug (male) that provides a data terminal equipment (DTE) interface. The auxiliary...
Page 25 - Performance Route Processor
1-25 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors Performance Route Processor This section provides information about the PRP. The PRP is supported in both the Cisco 12406 Router and the Cisco 12006 Router. Figure 1-8...
Page 30 - Flash Disk Size
Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors 1-30 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 the Flash disk contains the Cisco IOS software image. A 64-MB ATA Flash disk ships by default with the PRP. Table 1-5 lists the supported Flash disk sizes and their Ci...
Page 32 - Flash Disk Slots; Ethernet Ports; Asynchronous Serial Ports
Chapter 1 Product Overview Route Processors 1-32 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Flash Disk Slots The PRP includes two Flash disk (PCMCIA) slots. Either slot can support an ATA Flash disk or a Type 1 or Type 2 linear Flash memory card. The PRP ship...
Page 33 - Line Cards
1-33 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Line Cards Line Cards Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 routers come pre-installed with the number and type of line cards that you ordered. Line cards and RPs can be installed in two basic c...
Page 35 - Alarm Cards; ALARM
1-35 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Line Cards Alarm Cards Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 routers have two alarm card slots. Each alarm card performs the following function or indicates the following condition: • Alarm outp...
Page 36 - Alarm Output Function; sh gsr table; sh env all; Clock and Scheduler Card and Switch Fabric Card Status
Chapter 1 Product Overview Line Cards 1-36 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Alarm Output Function The alarm output function consists of a group of relays, LEDs, and their associated drivers connected to an output port on the MBus module. The alarm o...
Page 37 - Power Source Monitoring; Alarm Relay Contact Connector; Power Subsystems
1-37 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Power Subsystems Power Source Monitoring The alarm card monitors the power modules and signals when there is a condition outside the normal range of operation. It discloses problems su...
Page 38 - AC Power Subsystem; AC PDU
Chapter 1 Product Overview Power Subsystems 1-38 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Note Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 routers can be either AC powered or DC powered; the router cannot accept two different types of power modules at the same time. For de...
Page 42 - DC Power Subsystem; DC PDU; LED Label
Chapter 1 Product Overview Power Subsystems 1-42 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 • Two LEDs on the faceplate to provide status information. Table 1-6 summarizes the function of these indicators. DC Power Subsystem The DC power subsystem consists of...
Page 44 - DC-Input Power Entry Module
Chapter 1 Product Overview Power Subsystems 1-44 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 power should be connected to the terminal block. A negative lead is connected to the top port, a positive lead to the middle port, and a ground lead to the bottom port...
Page 45 - OUTPUT
1-45 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Power Subsystems Figure 1-16 DC-Input Power Entry Module A DC-input PEM (shown in Figure 1-16 ) has the following features: • A circuit breaker switch on the faceplate turns the PEM on...
Page 47 - Power Distribution; Blower Module
1-47 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Blower Module Power Distribution The router chassis backplane distributes -48 VDC power throughout the router and to all cards in the card cages. All cards have multiple DC-DC converte...
Page 48 - Top view
Chapter 1 Product Overview Blower Module 1-48 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 If the air temperature inside the RP and line card cage rises, the system environmental monitor shuts down all internal power to prevent equipment damage from excessive h...
Page 49 - Air Filters
1-49 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Chapter 1 Product Overview Blower Module • OK—Left LED; Green. When on, this LED indicates that the blower module is operating normally. This LED should come on as soon as the blower module is installed and rece...
Page 50 - Cable-Management System
Chapter 1 Product Overview Cable-Management System 1-50 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 The air filters are located on the right of the front side of the chassis. The air filters are housed behind a door that is spring-loaded in the closed position...
Page 52 - Field-Replaceable Units
Chapter 1 Product Overview Field-Replaceable Units 1-52 Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 Router Installation and Configuration Guide OL-11497-03 Field-Replaceable Units The field-replaceable units (FRUs) for Cisco 12006 and Cisco 12406 routers include the following units: • Route processor • Line cards •...