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Spare Component Recommendations â–€
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Spare Component Recommendations
This section provides a recommended quantity of spare parts to be used as part of a spare components program for the
system. The information contained is for informational purposes only, and should only be used as a guideline for
designing a spares program that meets your company's design, deployment, and availability goals.
It is recommended that your company either has fully-trained personnel available to effect the exchange of Field
Replaceable Units (FRUs) within your network, or requests on-site or field engineering resources to perform such
duties.
Based on industry-leading redundancy and failover features found in the system, the following minimum spare parts
levels for any planned deployment are recommended.
Table 28. Recommended FRU Parts Sparing Quantities
For every “n” number of deployed components
ASR 5000 Chassis with Midplane
System Management Card (SMC)
Packet Services Card (PSC or PSC2)
Ethernet 1000/Quad Gig-E (QGLC) Card
10 Gigabit Ethernet Line Card (XGLC)
Optical Line Card (OLC or OLC2)
Channelized Line Card (CLC or CLC2)
Switch Processor I/O Card (SPIO)
Redundancy Crossbar Card (RCC)
Ethernet 10/100 Line Card (FELC)
Gigabit Ethernet Line Card (GELC)