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Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System 8-Slot Line Card Chassis Installation Guide
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Installing and Removing MSCs, PLIMs, and
Associated Components
This chapter provides instructions on how to install and remove the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System
8-Slot Line Card Chassis modular services cards (MSCs), physical layer interface modules (PLIMs), and
any associated components. This chapter presents the following topics:
• Information About Installing and Removing Cards and Associated Components
• How to Install or Remove a Slot Cover
• How to Install or Remove an Impedance Carrier
• How to Install or Remove a Pillow Block
• How to Install or Remove a Switch Fabric Card
• How to Install or Remove an MSC
• How to Install or Remove an RP Card or DRP PLIM
• How to Install or Remove a PCMCIA Card
• How to Install or Remove a Physical Layer Interface Module (PLIM)
• How to Install or Remove a Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) Module
Information About Installing and Removing Cards and
Associated Components
This section contains some general information about installing and removing cards, PLIMs, and
associated components.
• Guidelines and Warnings for Card Installation and Removal
• Information About Impedance Carriers and Slot Covers
• Information About Distributed Route Processors and Distributed Route Processor PLIMs
• Information About Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) Modules
• Information About Hard Drives and PCMCIA Cards
• Information About Cable Management Brackets