A900-IMA2Z Cisco ASR 900 2-Port 10GE SFP+/XFP Interface Module

This interface module provides two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for an ASR 900 router. Each port accepts either an SFP+ optic or an XFP optic, so an existing XFP inventory can be reused alongside newer SFP+ parts; the two types must not be mixed in the same port, because that brings the port down. The ports support both LAN PHY and WAN PHY, and a few of the XFP optics do not support OC-192 or STM-64 packet-over-SONET.

Slot support follows the route switch processor. With the 64 variant of the second-generation processor it works in slots 0 to 2. With the third-generation 400 processor it works in all slots, and in the ASR 907 it uses slots 3, 4, 7, 8, 11 and 12.

Compared with the eight-port 10GE card in the same family, which uses SFP+ cages only and does not accept XFP, this card has fewer ports but keeps XFP support, which suits links already built on XFP optics. DWDM, CWDM and bidirectional optics are among the types listed for it.

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Related part: XFP-10GLR-OC192SR Cisco Multirate 10GBASE-LR and OC-192 SR-1 XFP Module