Common use of CFP4 HARDWARE SIGNALING PINS‌ Clause in Contracts

CFP4 HARDWARE SIGNALING PINS‌. The control and status reporting functions between a host and a CFP4 module use non-data control and status reporting pins on the 56-pin connector. The control and status reporting pins work together with the MDIO interface to form a complete HOST-CFP4 management interface. The status reporting pins provide status reporting. There are three (3) Hardware Control pins, two (2) Hardware Alarm pins, and six (6) pins dedicated to the MDIO interface. Specification of the CFP4 hardware signaling pins are given in Ref.[1] with the following changes listed in this document.