PIC compatibility

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P- Style pics are officially made for the M20 and M40 series, they also work in the M40e, M160, M320 when using a FPC1. Inofficially these pics also work with the M5 and M10 routers, however without any eject handle its very hard to get the pics removed. There are serveral hacks: M20_PIC_hotswapping to partitially solve this.

PE- Style pics are officially made for the M5(i)/M7i/M10(i) series. Inofficially they also work in the M40e, M160, M320 when using a FPC1 as well as M20/M40.

PC- Style pics are made for the M320/T320/T640 series.

PD- Style pics are made for the T640 and offer 40G throughput.

PB- Style pics are made for the M40e/M160/T320/T640 series. Some PB pics (type 1) can be used in the lower M-series (5/10/20 etc) when the faceplate is removed.

I- Style pics are quad wide (including full FPC) pics for the M20/M40 series. (e.g. OC48 Interfaces, Quad SX Gigabit Interfaces)

IB- Style pics are quad wide (including full FPC) pics for the M160 series. (e.g. OC192 interfaces)