About This Document

Intended Audience

This document provides an overall description of the switch hardware, helping you obtain detailed information about each chassis, card, power module, fan module, cable, and optical module.

This document is intended for network engineers responsible for network design and deployment. You should understand your network well, including the network topology and service requirements.

Symbol Conventions

The symbols that may be found in this document are defined as follows.

Symbol	Description
	Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in equipment damage, data loss, performance deterioration, or unanticipated results. NOTICE is used to address practices not related to personal injury.
	Supplements the important information in the main text. NOTE is used to address information not related to personal injury, equipment damage, and environment deterioration.

Symbol

Description

Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in equipment damage, data loss, performance deterioration, or unanticipated results.

NOTICE is used to address practices not related to personal injury.

Supplements the important information in the main text.

NOTE is used to address information not related to personal injury, equipment damage, and environment deterioration.

Command Conventions

The command conventions that may be found in this document are defined as follows.

Convention	Description
Boldface	The keywords of a command line are in boldface.
Italic	Command arguments are in italics.
[ ]	Items (keywords or arguments) in brackets [ ] are optional.
{ x \| y \| ... }	Optional items are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars. One item is selected.
[ x \| y \| ... ]	Optional items are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars. One item is selected or no item is selected.
{ x \| y \| ... }^*	Optional items are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars. A minimum of one item or a maximum of all items can be selected.
[ x \| y \| ... ]^*	Optional items are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars. Several items or no item can be selected.
&<1-n>	The parameter before the & sign can be repeated 1 to n times.
#	A line starting with the # sign is comments.

Disclaimer

This document is designed as a reference for you to configure your devices. Its contents, including web pages, command line input and output, are based on laboratory conditions. It provides instructions for general scenarios, but does not cover all use cases of all product models. The examples given may differ from your use case due to differences in software versions, models, and configuration files. When configuring your device, alter the configuration depending on your use case.
The specifications provided in this document are tested in lab environment (for example, a certain type of cards have been installed on the tested device or only one protocol is run on the device). Results may differ from the listed specifications when you attempt to obtain the maximum values with multiple functions enabled on the device.
In this document, public IP addresses may be used in feature introduction and configuration examples and are for reference only unless otherwise specified.

Device Dimension Conventions

The dimensions described in this document are theoretically typical dimensions and do not include dimension tolerances.