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As a network neophyte, what are the "cards" they are talking about in the article?
by bprater 18y ago
As a network neophyte, what are the "cards" they are talking about in the article?
- tptacek 18y agoThe line cards in the Cat6k. The Cat6k is Cisco's flagship product, a layer-3 switch. By itself, it's an refrigerator-sized empty chassis. Add a "SUP" card to it, which is roughly the shape of an oblong pizza box, and you have something you can run Cisco's OS on. Plug line cards into it and you have places to plug networking cables of varying types. The line cards themselves have processors and various ways of interfacing to the backplane in the chassis.
- there 18y agorouters like that are expandable with different cards (think 1" thick 20x15" cards) to interface with different hardware. you can swap them in and out on the fly to add more connections, replace failed cards, etc. you can buy the router as just a chassis with no cards in it, which means it's fairly useless. depending on your particular network setup, you install the cards to support it.