Product Bulletin No. 1801

Cisco ONS 15454 SDH
Multi-Service Platform Release 3.3.0

ONS 15454 SDH Multi-Service Platform

Telecommunications service providers, as well as enterprise customers are constantly in search of new solutions for satisfying their users demands for higher bandwidths, more reliable services, and lower costs. As the leader in evolutionary optical networking, the Cisco Optical Networking Group family of products continues to develop solutions to better fulfill these requirements. The ONS 15454 leverages Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) technology to support the need for network reliability while integrating Gigabit Ethernet service interfaces for high bandwidth transport and a lower interface cost versus current TDM and POS interfaces.

The ONS 15454 SDH supports all the legacy TDM interfaces enabling the service provider and enterprise user to deliver today's services but positioning their network to support carrier-class Ethernet services when the demand arises.

The ONS 15454 multi services platform has become the industry leader by providing users a simple, fast and easy system with the flexibility to aggregate and transport a wide variety of services. With Release 3.3.0, the ETSI standard ONS 15454 SDH multi-services platform is added to the OTBU portfolio of optical products.

The ONS 15454 SDH provides the functions of multiple network elements in a single platform. The ONS 15454 SDH provides TDM solutions with interfaces such as E1, E3 and DS3, data solutions with 10/100/1000 Ethernet solutions with STM1 to STM64 optical transport bit rates.

The ONS 15454 SDH supports the following industry leading capabilities:

• Aggregation and transport of services from E1 to STM64
  
  
• Switched 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet for improved bandwidth utilization
  
  
• Flexible networking support including rings, linear point-to point, linear add/drop, star, and hybrid topologies
  
  
• Restoration choices: SNCP, 2-fiber and 4-fiber MS SPR, 1+1 APS, unprotected span, and Cisco's Path Protected Mesh Networking (PPMN)
  
  
• Compact footprint for deployment flexibility (3 can fit in a 2000mm ETSI rack/cabinet).
  
  
• Carrier Class Reliability
  
  

The ONS 15454 SDH continues to extend its capabilities to enable customers to build efficient networks. As well, Cisco continues to deliver carrier class equipment through high quality engineering methodologies and our continued compliance to standards.

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet is becoming widely deployed in the enterprise market space, as Ethernet LANs to the desktop have scaled in bandwidth from 10Mbps to 100Mbps. Enterprise customers are looking to extend Gigabit Ethernet to interconnect their facilities across town or across the nation. As well, Service Providers want to leverage the cost effectiveness of the Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to interconnect their core and edge routers. The E10/100-12 and E1000-2 modules address this requirement.

The G1000-4 Gigabit Ethernet transport card opens up new applications and network architectures for enterprise users for interconnecting data facilities and revenue opportunities for Service Providers. Service Providers looking to offer new service tariffs leveraging the ubiquitous Gigabit Ethernet interface adds the capability to transport full line-rate Gigabit Ethernet services, with carrier-class survivability and the reliability of SDH.

ONS 15454 SDH Multi-Service Platform Applications Overview

ONS 15454 SDH Release 3.3.0 New Equipment

The new hardware and software being introduced in Release 3.3.0 is outlined in the following table:

Availability

The ONS 15454 SDH is presently orderable and it is anticipated that First Customer Shipment (FCS) will be in late May 2002.

Demonstrations

Cisco welcomes you to come see the ONS 15454 SDH metro optical transport platform, including the R3.3.0 capabilities at our Telecom Valley Visitor Center (TVVC) in Petaluma, California or at a Worldwide Executive Briefing Center (EBC) located in Mexico City Mexico, Monza Italy, Sydney Australia and Beijing China. To arrange a visit, please contact your account representative.

Summary

The ONS 15454 SDH multi service platform is a flexible system, enabling a single network element to be deployed in a wide variety of applications. The platform's features and functionality continues to make it simple to engineer, with a minimal set of configuration rules. Questions regarding advanced features, functionality and capabilities of the ONS 15454 SDH system should be directed to your Cisco account representative.

The ONS 15454 SDH platform delivers integrated optical networking, unprecedented multi-service interfaces along with radical economics. The ONS 15454 platform is widely adopted and is deployed by over 700 customers representing >30,000 network elements. Continued product developments and enhancements, such as the line-rate G1000-4 card, have enabled the ONS 15454 SDH to increase its lead in the metro optical transport space. Providing an evolutionary platform, the ONS 15454 SDH meets both enterprise and service provider metro transport equipment needs by providing support for their present multi-service interface demands along with efficient data transport plus low life cycle costs. These capabilities help reduce networking costs and improve service provider profitability through compatibility with their existing, embedded transport and management infrastructures while positioning them to seamlessly offer enhanced data and higher bandwidth services over a common infrastructure.

Additional Information

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