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3.4 GbE Card
The COM360 chassis has an integrated 14 port Ethernet switch on the backplane. This switch
provides gigabit speed on two external ports as well as all card slots. The GbE card was designed
for the legacy COM200 chassis which only had one external GbE port that is not available once
a QAM6 is installed. Since two GbE ports are always available on a COM360 the GbE card is
not needed to interconnect multiple COM360 chassis.
3.5 XDR24 Card
Deprecated. This card is no longer supported.
3.6 QAM6 Board
The QAM6 card is an Edge QAM that can be installed directly into a COM360 chassis. It
connects to the COM46 cards via a GigE connection on the back edge of the card. This optional
card replaces the Ethernet Card in the upper left side of a COM200 Chassis. The board provides
12 QAM modulators in addition to the front Ethernet port, which can be used to manage the
COM2000 system. Each QAM channel can carry 2 - 3 HD or 8 SD video channels. A COM360
chassis fully populated with COM46 receivers (48 channels total) requires 2 QAM6 modulators
updated to 12 channels with SWQAM2 upgrade licenses. A front view of the QAM6 can be seen
in Figure 7.
Figure 7 – QAM6 Front View
The QAM6 outputs three unique channel-grouping of four channels each according to the EIA
North American Cable Television Frequency Plan (see EIA-542B) from the front RF connector.
The four channels within each channel-grouping must be adjacent to one another and within the
Card Edge Connector
Ethernet Port
RF Output
LEDs
Recessed Reset Button
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