Ground and Power Cable Installation

The Acme Packet 6300/6350 must be properly grounded to ensure efficient system performance. Grounding your Acme Packet chassis is an extremely important part of the installation and maintenance procedures. If the Acme Packet 6300/6350 is not properly grounded, it can result in physical harm, problems with system functionality, and it can exhibit the following unpredictable problems:

• Garbled output on the console display
• Sudden crashes
• Physical damage to the Acme Packet chassis and its hardware components

  Note:

  Failure to ground the chassis properly can result in bodily harm (in certain circumstances) and permanent damage to the Acme Packet 6300/6350 and its components.

  The Acme Packet 6300/6350 does not support mixing AC and DC power supplies in the same chassis. A mixed power configuration is prohibited.

Your equipment rack location must have a local earth ground. This ground can be either an unpainted spot on the grounded equipment rack frame or a grounded bus bar in the equipment room.