Cisco Systems introduced new and enhanced solutions for edge, metro and core multiservice optical networks. The rollout includes:
- for the network edge -- the Cisco ONS 15310-CL SONET Multiservice Platform and enhanced Cisco ONS 15302 and Cisco ONS 15305 SDH multiservice customer access platforms. The Cisco ONS 15310-CL, which is a one rack-unit edge platform, enables SONET operators to deploy new services such as private-line and switched-Ethernet services that support link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS), virtual concatenation (VCAT) and generic framing procedure (GFP). The ONS 15310-CL is interoperable with existing Cisco ONS 15454 SONET MSPP infrastructures. For SDH networks, the enhanced Cisco ONS 15302 and Cisco ONS 15305 platforms also now support private-line and switched-Ethernet services.
- for metro networks -- new Carrier Ethernet functionality and high-density DS-3 solutions are being added to the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP). The enhancements include a new Carrier Ethernet (CE)-Series line card that supports LCAS, VCAT and GFP and new high-density DS-3 line cards.
- for core networks -- Cisco added a new any-service, any-port (ASAP) line card that helps enable software-selectable bandwidth and protocol options for the Cisco ONS 15600 Multiservice Switching Platform (MSSP), in addition to faster broadband switching functionality. The new ASAP line card augments the existing OC-48 and OC-192 interfaces and adds OC-3, OC-12 and GFP-based Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth flexibility to service providers' core networks through small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optics. In addition, a new Cisco ONS 15600 MSSP single-slot cross-connect (SSXC) card is much faster and uses less power than the platform's current cross-connect card. The SSXC enables customers to transparently pass the overhead of SONET/SDH and supports more than 32 two-fiber bidirectional line-switched rings.
