Front view of Cisco 1800 series
Back view of Cisco 1800 series
Front View
Cisco 1800 Series Interface Guide
1 | System Power (SYS PWR) LED | 2 | System Activity (SYS ACT) LED |
1-System Power
System Power LED on the front side of Cisco 1800 Series Router indicates that either the Router in powered ON or not. LED color is green when ON.
2-System Activity
System Activity LED on the front side of router blinks when packets are being received by router or being transmitted on any LAN\WAN network.
Back View
1 | WAN Slot | 2 | Expansion switch port |
3 | FXO ports |
1-WAN Slot
On the back side of the router WAN slot ids designed which is used when further expansion is required in the network by inserting an extra WIC card in the router.
2-Expansion Switch Port
Expansion switch ports on the back side of the router are used for wired expansion when required in the network. The expansion slots are embedded with high data transfer rate.
3-FXO Ports
FXO ports are also known as POTS (Plain Old Telephone Services). They are used for connecting old telephones (not IP phones) with the router.
1 | BRI ports | 2 | FXS ports |
3 | Power over Ethernet (PoE) ports | 4 | Fast Ethernet (FE) port |
1-BRI Ports
Basic Rate Interface ports are used for the voice data transmission in the network.
2-FXS Ports
FXS ports are same as FXO ports, used for connecting Plain Old Telephone Services (POST) phones to router.
3-Power over Ethernet (PoE)
Power over Ethernet is the specific Ethernet port through which we can transmit data and pass electricity on same Ethernet cable.
4-Fast Ethernet Port
Fast Ethernet port is featured with 100 Mbps data transmission rate.
1 | Serial Number |
1-Serial Number
Serial Number is the code used for vendor’s record.
1 | SYS | Solid Green | Online |
2 | PoE | Solid Green | Connected |
3 | VM | Solid Green | Online |
4 | WLAN | Blinking Green | Connected |
1-SYS
SYS LED goes ON, when router is supplied electrical power and is switched ON. When ON it goes Solid Green in color.
2-PoE
PoE LED is switched ON and goes Solid Green in color when device like IP phone is connected with router and data and power is being passed on the same Ethernet cable.
3-VM
VM means Virgin Media connectivity.
4-WLAN
WLAN LED starts blinking green when router is working in wireless mode.