Acme Packet 4600 Physical Interfaces

The Acme Packet 4600 has one network interface unit (NIU) that contains all external interfaces, including console, alarm, network management and media interfaces.

WARNING:

Customers must use either the 2 x 10GbE ports or the 4 x GbE ports. Using both P4-P5 and P0-P3 is not supported.

The following illustration shows the NIU labels and ports. These designations are an important point of reference when you set up the phy-interface configuration element.

4600 NIU Rear Ports

The Acme Packet 4600 NIU contains the following ports (from left to right).

  • Console—Provides serial access for administrative and maintenance purposes.
  • Alarm—Dry contact alarm port.
  • USB—The USB port is reserved for use by Oracle support employees, only.
  • Mgmt 0–Mgmt 2—These 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports are used for EMS control, RADIUS accounting, CLI management, SNMP queries and traps, and other management functions.
  • P4–P5—2 x 10GbE ports for signaling and media traffic.
  • P0–P3—4 x GbE ports for signaling and media traffic.

The OID in ap-products.mib for the Acme Packet 4600 is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9148.1.1.3.