The article will provide a user with information on Cisco ONS 15600 MSSP’s Technical Specifications.

Interface Cards
ASAP (Any Service Any Port)
Ports per Card - Supports up to four pluggable I/O modules

4PIO Pluggable I/O Module
Ports per Card - Supports up to four OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, GE, OC-48/STM-16, or OC-48 STM-16 DWDM SFPs.
Protection - 1+1, 0:1, ring, mesh

1PIO Pluggable I/O Module
Ports per Card - Supports one SR or LR OC-192/STM-64 XFP:
Protection - 1+1, 0:1, ring, mesh

Common Equipment
Timing and shelf controller card - Timing and control functions - System initialization, provisioning, alarm reporting, maintenance, diagnostics, IP address detection and resolution, stratum 3E timing, DCC termination, and system fault detection.

Core cross-connect card - Fully redundant, central switching element providing 6144 STS-1/VC-3 (2048 VC-4) switching capacity, fully cross-point, nonblocking, broadcast supporting

Input/output (I/O) shelf assembly - Shelf assembly with backplane, fan tray assembly (3), fan tray filter, customer access panel (Ethernet interfaces, 32 alarm inputs/outputs, external timing references for T1, E1, and J1)

Power distribution unit (PDU) - Fully redundant PDU with both A and B side power supplies, including multiple circuit breakers; one PDU supplies power for up to three Cisco ONS 15600 shelves

Platform Features

Topologies Supported
• 64 UPSR/SNCP (any combination of UPSR/SNCP, BLSR/MS-SPRing, and 1+1 APS/MSP can be mixed within the allowable maximums)
• 32 two-fiber BLSR/MS-SPRing with Dual Ring Interconnect (DRI) support
• 8 OC-192 / 32 OC-48 four-fiber BLSR (4f MS-SPRing: future release)
• 64 1+1 APS/MSP, uni-or bidirectional
• Path Protected Mesh Networking (PPMN)

Node Configurations
• Multiring (mixed UPSR/SNCP, BLSR/MS-SPRing, and 1+1 APS/MSP)
• Linear ADM
• Mesh
• Regenerator
• Star/hub

User Interface - Cisco Transport Controller
• Integrated node and subnetwork GUI craft interface
• Layered graphical views - network, node, and card levels
• A-to-Z circuit routing
– Automatic internode cross-connect provisioning
– Detailed circuit map
– Protected or unprotected circuits
– Nodal diversity option
– Balanced traffic option
– Single session, multiple circuit creation
• Node auto-discovery with provisionable subnetwork domain control
• Provisionable background maps
• System inventory
• Flexible color schemes
• Data export
• Online help
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) passthrough
• PC-based client
• Familiar browser interface - Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer

Maintenance
• Loopbacks - facility and terminal
• Protection switching
• Database backup and restore
• Lamp test
• Test and bridging access

Performance Monitoring (SONET/SDH)
• Telcordia GR-253-CORE, G.823, G.825, G.826, G.829
• 15 minute (32 entries), 24 hour (28 entries)
• Near- and far-end reporting
• Provisionable threshold crossing alerts
• Intermediate path performance monitoring (IPPM)
• SNMP Remote Monitoring (RMON)

Alarm Monitoring and Reporting
• Shelf LEDs are: Critical, Major, Minor, Processor
• The following cards have the following LEDs:
– TSC: STAT, SRV, ACT/STBY, Line, External, Free Run, Holdover, ACO
– CXC: STAT, SRV
– SSXC: STAT, SRV
– ASAP: STAT, SRV, SD, SF, Laser On
– Fan: STAT
• Cisco Transport Controller
• Cisco Transport Manager
• Thirty-two alarm contact closures (standard) - critical, major, minor, remote

System Upgrades
• Optical span
• Ring protection
• Software (local or remote)

Network Management Interface Support
• SNMP Versions 1 and 2c
• TL1 (GR-189-CORE and GR-833-CORE)

System Access
• 10BASE-T LAN, RJ-45 front and rear, provisionable Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
• DB9 connectors for TL1 terminal

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