Lucent Technologies 9076 User Manual

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SP Switch Router Adapter Guide - 1.4 Update 2
   
 
 October 22, 1999   
 
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Introduction to the SP Switch Router 
Adapter card 
 
    
 
   
 
 
 
The RS/6000 SP Switch Router is based on the GRF 400 (4-card) and GRF 1600 (16-card) 
routers manufactured by Lucent Technologies. For that reason, this manual contains references 
to the 
 
GRF 400/1600 Getting Started
 
 
GRF Reference Guide
 
, and 
 
GRF Configuration and Management 
 
manuals. The SP model of the router is referred to as the 
SP Switch Router.
SP Switch Routers can be used to provide high-speed data communication links between IBM 
RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP) and external networks/hosts. The SP Switch 
Router Adapter card is the router media card that specifically supports SP system data 
transfers. To connect to an SP system, the SP Switch Router Adapter card is cabled directly to 
an SP Switch port.                 
Material in Chapter 1 provides a basic description of the SP Switch Router Adapter card. 
Please refer to the 
 
GRF 400/1600 Getting Started
 
 manual for SP Switch Router system 
installation procedures.
Chapter 1 covers these topics: