Acme Packet 6400 Management Interfaces

Management interfaces include 3 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces labeled MGT 0, MGT 1, and MGT 2. (These interfaces are often referred to as wancom0, wancom1, and wancom2.) MGT 0 is for SSH access to the ACLI; the other two management interfaces are used for high availability (HA). For HA, connect these interfaces directly using a crossover cable.

The SER MGT port is the serial console port.

Signaling and Media Interfaces

The signaling and media interfaces provide network connectivity for signaling and media traffic. Each interface can connect to a network at 10-Gigabit speeds through the SFP+ connector.

The optical 10GbE cards can accept an LC fiber connector using either single mode or multimode cable. Mixed transceiver types are not supported on SFP+ ports because compliance testing shows that the SFP+ ports must be populated with identical SFP+ types. The Acme Packet 6400 supports the 4x10GbE network interface ports to provide greater session scaling and Packet Processing Module (PPM) support.

The following table maps the connection labels on the rear interfaces to the operation-type, slot and port attributes in the phy-interface configuration element.