Appendix A Specifications

Card Specifications

12 inches (20.5 cm) without cables installed

13.7 inches (34.8 cm) with cables installed

Weight:

25 lbs. (11.3 kg) maximum (line cards, fan-tray assembly, and two electrical interface assemblies (EIAs) installed)

A.2 Card Specifications

This section provides specifications for the 15310-MA SDH electrical and 15310E-CTX-K9 cards. For compliance information, refer to the Cisco Optical Transport Products Safety and Compliance Information document.

A.2.1 15310E-CTX-K9 Card

The 15310E-CTX-K9 card is installed in Slots 3 and 4 of the ONS 15310-MA SDH only. The 15310E-CTX-K9 has the following specifications.

LAN Port

Supports a 10/100-Mbps Ethernet interface for Cisco Transport Controller/Transaction Language One (CTC/TL1) provisioning.

For node access in secure mode, SSL (for TL1) and HTTPS (for CTC) security protocols are supported.

CRAFT Port

An EIA/TIA-232 craft interface is provided and is used for TL1 provisioning.

The craft interface is set to 9600 baud, no parity, and 1 stop bit by default.

Nonvolatile memory

128 MB, Compact Flash card

Optical ports: Line

Bit rate: STM1 (155.520 Mbps), STM4, (622.080 Mbps), and STM16 (2488.320 Mbps), depending on the SFP installed

Note Both optical interfaces on the card can be configured as STM1, STM4, or STM16.

Code: Scrambled NRZ

Fiber: depends on the SFP used

(see the “A.3 SFP Specifications” section on page A-9)

Loopback modes: Terminal and facility

Connectors: LC duplex connector for each SFP

Compliance: ITU-T G.707, ITU-T G.957

Optical ports: Transmitter

Maximum transmitter output power: Depends on the SFP used (see the “A.3 SFP Specifications” section on page A-9)

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15310-MA specifications

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