Cisco Cisco ONS 15454 M6 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) Data Sheet

 

 

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Data Sheet 

8-Port Enhanced Data Muxponder Card for the 
Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform 

The 8-Port Enhanced Data Muxponder Card (Figure 1) for the Cisco

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 ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform 

(MSTP) expands the platform’s storage area network (SAN) and data interface density. The card facilitates the 

delivery of Gigabit Ethernet, 1-Gbps to 4-Gbps Fibre Channel, IBM Fiber Connection (FICON), and IBM ISC 

services for enterprises or metropolitan-area (metro) and regional service provider networks.  

Figure 1.    Cisco ONS 15454 8-Port Enhanced Data Muxponder Card 

 

Background 

Large and medium-sized enterprises and service providers increasingly find themselves at a critical stage in the 

expansion of their networked data centers. They typically need to consolidate a variety of networks services and 

protocols that support their storage and data applications in order to simplify operations and reduce costs. These 

services range from Gigabit Ethernet to 10-Gbps Fibre Channel and include 1-Gbps Fibre Channel, 2-Gbps Fibre 

Channel, the emerging 4-Gbps Fibre Channel data rate, IBM FICON, ISC Compat, and ISC-3 (1-Gbps/2-Gbps).  

In the recent past, SONET add/drop multiplexers (ADMs) provided the services platform to aggregate and transport 

services up to OC-48/STM-16, whereas metro dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) platforms were 

designed for optical signals from OC-3/STM-1 to OC-192/STM-64, including Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. 

Unfortunately, deploying multiple platforms (including metro DWDM and SONET ADMs) to support multiple 

services is not cost-effective for many service provider and enterprise networks. The Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP with