I've used the WS-G5483 GBIC in a PA-GE with no problems (although it will come up as "Unknown Type". NPE-G2 has built in copper ports also. -Dave On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, james edwards wrote: > Can the PA-GE card or the 3 GE ports that are standard on the G2 > terminate a RJ-45 > connection or are they strictly optical ? > >