Common use of Hardware Signaling Pins Clause in Contracts

Hardware Signaling Pins. The control and status reporting functions between a host and a CFP8 module use non-data control and status reporting pins on the 124-pin connector. The control and status reporting pins work together with the MDIO interface to form a complete HOST-CFP8 management interface. The status reporting pins provide status reporting. There are three (3) Hardware Control pins, two (2) Hardware Alarm pins, and four (4) pins dedicated to the MDIO interface. Specification of the CFP8 hardware signaling pins are given in Ref.[1] with the following changes listed in this document.