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Appendix E
Spare Component Recommendations
This appendix provides a recommended quantity of spare components to be stocked as part of a sparing program for the
ASR 5000. This information should only be used as a guideline for designing a sparing program that meets your
company's design, deployment, and availability goals.
Important: Only fully-trained personnel, on-site or field engineering resources should exchange the Field
Replaceable Units (FRUs) listed below.
Based on industry-leading redundancy and failover features incorporated within the system, Cisco recommends that the
following minimum spare parts levels for any ASR 5000 deployment.
Table 109. Recommended FRU Parts Sparing Quantities
For every “n” number of deployed components
System Management Card (SMC)
Packet Services Card (PSC2 or PSC3)
Ethernet 1000/Quad Gig-E (QGLC) Card
10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Card (XGLC)
Channelized Line Card (CLC2)
Switch Processor I/O Card (SPIO)
Redundancy Crossbar Card (RCC)
Ethernet 10/100 Line Card (FLC2)
Gigabit Ethernet Line Card (GLC2)