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Data Sheet
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laser bias, transmit optical power, and receiver optical power. Calculation and accumulation of the
performance monitoring data will be in 15-minute and 24-hour intervals.
The 10-Gbps Full-Band Tunable Transponder Card incorporates faceplate-mounted LEDs to
provide a quick visual check of the operational status of the card. An orange circle is printed on the
faceplate, indicating the shelf slots the card can be installed.
Application Description
The 10-Gbps Full-Band Tunable Transponder Card adds several new applications to an already
flexible Cisco ONS 15454 platform. These include metro 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, STM-64
transport for cable-landing service extension, and OC-192/STM-64 transport for carrier services.
10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity (Figure 5): With the addition of 10 Gigabit Ethernet on data
terminals, the need for service providers to add a 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport service becomes
critical to provide a complete metro service portfolio to their customer base. The 10-Gbps
transponder card helps enable service providers to cost-effectively integrate 10 Gigabit Ethernet
into their service mix over a multiservice network, reducing the need to deploy an overlay DWDM
platform, and reducing the cost to deploy the service.
Figure 5. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Connectivity
STM-64 transport for cable-landing service extension (Figure 6): A second application is the
capability of a carrier’s service provider (Service Provider A) to transport STM-64 payloads from a
transoceanic cable-landing site to another service provider’s international gateway site (Service
Provider B).
Figure 6. STM-64 Transport for Cable Landing Service Extension