Cisco 8-port EFEC Data Muxponder Card 15454-10DME-C= Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
8-Port Enhanced Data Muxponder Card for the Cisco ONS 15454
Multiservice Transport Platform
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