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Installation and Configuration Note for the Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine V
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Configuring Your Supervisor Engine
Figure 5 SC-Type Fiber-Optic Connector
Configuring Your Supervisor Engine
For information and commands to configure your supervisor engine, refer to the Software Configuration
Guide for your switch.
GBIC Handling Guidelines and Installation
A GBIC (see Figure 6) is a hot swappable input/output device that plugs into the Gigabit Ethernet port
of a supervisor engine and links the supervisor engine with a fiber-optic network. GBICs are online
swappable.
Figure 6 Gigabit Interface Converter
The following GBIC media types are supported:
• 1000BASE-T (WS-G5483)
• 1000BASE-SX (WS-G5484)
• 1000BASE-LX/LH (WS-G5486)
• 1000BASE-ZX (WS-G5487)
• CWDM (CWDM-GBIC-xxxx=, which codes 8 different wavelengths)
• DWDM (DWDM-GBIC-xx.xx=, which codes 32 different wavelengths)
Cable
Plug
Receptacle
Keys
Receiver
Transmitter
Light out
of fiber
Light into
fiber
13087
Key slots
11825
Receiver Transmitter