Cisco Cisco ONS 15454 ML-Series 8-Port SFP-Based 100Base-FX Ethernet Card 데이터 시트
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Data Sheet
Cisco ML-Series for the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Provisioning
Platform: Providing Multilayer Services for Metro Optical Ethernet
The Cisco
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ML-Series interface cards provide exceptional Ethernet switching and IP routing capabilities for
multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPPs). Cisco Systems
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has coupled the market-leading optical capabilities of
the Cisco ONS 15454 MSPP with proven Cisco IOS
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Software to deliver profitable Metro Ethernet and IP solutions
over a multiservice network architecture.
BACKGROUND
Information connectivity is becoming ubiquitous as businesses and consumers look for ways to improve their productivity. Access to this
information can be over a wide variety of networks, including the many forms of wire-line (DSL, T1, E1, dialup, cable modem, fiber to the
premises, and so on) and wireless (cell, 802.11, WiMAX, and so on) vehicles. The main benefit of this information connectivity is user
access to a wide variety of information that can be located anywhere in the world.
Ethernet technology has become the protocol of choice for the LAN environment. It is also becoming increasingly commonplace in
metropolitan-area networks (MANs) with the release of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet (GE) interfaces on DSL access multiplexers
(DSLAMs), fixed wireless, and private branch exchanges (PBXs). Thus, service providers are creating tariffs to efficiently interconnect to
and transport users’ data traffic using Ethernet handoffs, and they must deploy metropolitan (metro) transport equipment that will permit
them to deliver these services cost-effectively and with the reliability required by their service-level agreements (SLAs). Although
Ethernet-based services are growing, they are still not the dominant share of the market demand. Therefore, the service provider’s metro
networking equipment must support both traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) services as well as newer Ethernet services without
a major upgrade – this explains why the multiservice provisioning platform has taken hold in the metro marketplace.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Cisco ML-Series cards for the Cisco ONS 15454 MSPP (Figure 1) are industry-leading Ethernet and IP switching modules for
integration into a SONET/SDH optical transport platform. The cards extend the multiservice capabilities and flexibility offered by the
Cisco ONS 15454 platform.