Cisco Cisco Prime Optical 9.5 Release Notes

Support for Generalized Multiprotocol 
Label Switching (GMPLS) circuits

GMPLS is based on MPLS, with protocol extensions to support additional 
technologies, including time division multiplexing (TDM) slots (such as 
SONET and SDH), wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) wavelengths at 
Layer 1, and fiber. You can manage the following using GMPLS circuits:

Provisioning optical channels (OCHCC, OCHNC, and OCH Trail)

Circuit promotion

Validating optical circuits taking into account optical impairments

Rerouting wavelength for traffic restoration

Fiber attributes and alien wavelength provisioning

CPT 200 platform managed as a CPT NE

In Prime Optical 9.3 and Prime Optical 9.3.1, the CPT 200 platform was 
managed as ONS 15454 SONET/ONS 15454 SDH NEs. In Prime Optical 9.5, 
the CPT 200 platform is managed as a CPT NE.

CPT 600 platform managed as a CPT NE

In Prime Optical 9.3 and Prime Optical 9.3.1, the CPT 600 platforms were 
managed as ONS 15454 SONET/ONS 15454 SDH NEs. In Prime Optical 9.5, 
the CPT 600 platform is managed as a CPT NE.

Support for VLAN attributes and Match All 
criteria in Class Maps

VLAN attributes are supported. Enter a value from 1 to 4094 in the VLAN field 
or ranges of VLANs [1-4094]. You can enter up to 30 values.

You can select the Match All criteria when creating a class map.

Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) and IEEE 
1588v2 Precision Time Protocol support on 
the CPT System

A separate external TDM circuit is required to provide synchronized timing to 
multiple remote NEs for packet transport networks such as the CPT System. 
The Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) feature addresses this requirement by 
providing effective timing to the remote NEs through a packet network without 
using an external circuit for timing. 

The Timing property allows you to configure SyncE ports.

Discovery of DWDM pluggable line 
insertion modules (PLIMs) on the Cisco 
Aggregation Services Router 9000 (ASR 
9000) R4.1.1 

Prime Optical 9.5 supports the discovery of DWDM PLIMs on the ASR 9K 
R4.1.1.

View device details for CPT and ASR9000 
NEs

When Prime Optical and Prime Network are installed as part of the Cisco Prime 
Central suite, you can view device details for CPT and ASR 9000 NEs.

New Alien Wavelength/Fiber Attribute tab

An Alien Wavelength/Fiber Attribute tab under the DWDM node properties 
pane is shown for the following NEs:

ONS 15454 MSTP 

ONS 15454 SONET 

ONS 15454 SDH 

ONS 15454-M6 

ONS 15454-M2