Chapter 2 Cards Specifications

2.1 Card Overview

Table 2-5

Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Cards (continued)

 

 

 

 

Card

 

Part Number

Description

 

 

 

 

MXP_2.5G_10E

 

15454-10ME-xx.x=

The 2.5 Gbps-10 Gbps Muxponder-100 GHz-Tunable xx.xx-xx.xx

 

 

 

(MXP_2.5G_10E) card has nine sets of ports located on the faceplate

 

 

 

and can be installed in Slots 1 through 6 and 12 through 17. It is a

 

 

 

DWDM muxponder for the ONS 15454 platform that supports full

 

 

 

optical transparency on the client side. The card multiplexes four 2.5

 

 

 

Gbps client signals (4 x OC48/STM-16 SFP) into a single 10-Gbps

 

 

 

DWDM optical signal on the trunk side. The MXP_2.5G_10E card

 

 

 

provides wavelength transmission service for the four incoming 2.5

 

 

 

Gbps client interfaces. It passes all SONET overhead bytes

 

 

 

transparently. Each version of this card has a different part number.

 

 

 

The MXP_2.5G_10E works with Optical Transparent Network (OTN)

 

 

 

devices defined in ITU-T G.709. The card supports Optical Data

 

 

 

Channel Unit 1 (ODU1) to Optical Channel Transport Unit (OTU2)

 

 

 

multiplexing, an industry standard method for asynchronously

 

 

 

mapping a SONET/SDH payload into a digitally wrapped envelope.

 

 

 

The MXP_2.5G_10E card is tunable over four neighboring

 

 

 

wavelengths in the 1550 nm, ITU 100-GHz range. It is available in

 

 

 

eight different versions, covering thirty-two different wavelengths in

 

 

 

the 1550 nm range. It is not compatible with the MXP_2.5G_10G

 

 

 

card, which does not supports full optical transparency. The faceplate

 

 

 

designation of the card is “4x2.5G 10E MXP.”

 

 

 

MXP_2.5G_10E-C

15454-10ME-C=

This muxponder has the same features as the MXP_2.5G_10E card,

 

 

 

but its trunk interface can be tuned over the entire C band.

 

 

 

MXP_2.5G_10E-L

15454-10ME-L=

This muxponder has the same features as the MXP_2.5G_10E card,

 

 

 

but its trunk interface can be tuned over the entire L band.

 

 

 

 

MXP_MR_2.5G

 

15454-Datamux2.5GDM

The MXP_MR_2.5G card has nine sets of ports located on the

 

 

 

faceplate. The MXP_MR_2.5G card aggregates a mix and match of

 

 

 

client Storage Area Network (SAN) service client inputs (GE,

 

 

 

FICON, Fibre Channel, and ESCON) into one 2.5 Gbps

 

 

 

STM-16/OC-48 DWDM signal on the trunk side. It provides one

 

 

 

long-reach STM-16/OC-48 port per card and is compliant with

 

 

 

Telcordia GR-253-CORE.

 

 

 

MXPP_MR_2.5G

15454-Datamux2.5GDMP

The MXPP_MR_2.5G card has ten sets of ports located on the

 

 

 

faceplate. The 2.5-Gbps Multirate Muxponder-Protected-100

 

 

 

GHz-Tunable 15xx.xx-15yy.yy (MXPP_MR_2.5G) card aggregates

 

 

 

various client SAN service client inputs (GE, FICON, Fibre Channel,

 

 

 

and ESCON) into one 2.5 Gbps STM-16/OC-48 DWDM signal on the

 

 

 

trunk side. It provides two long-reach STM-16/OC-48 ports per card

 

 

 

and is compliant with ITU-T G.957 and Telcordia GR-253-CORE.

 

 

 

 

Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Engineering and Planning Guide, Release 7.x

 

July 2006

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Cisco Systems 15454 specifications MXPMR2.5G, MXPPMR2.5G

15454 specifications

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