Specifications

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Cisco ONS 15454 Product Overview, R3.3
May 2002
Cisco ONS 15454 Product Overview
Cisco Transport Controller
Circuit Provisioning and Management
CTC enables automated circuit provisioning across ONS 15454 networks and
between ONS 15454s and ONS 15327s, including STS and VT1.5 circuits and VT
tunnels, as well as multiple drop and monitor circuits. From the CTC GUI, select a
source and destination ONS 15454 or ONS 15327 to create an end-to-end circuit.
CTC automatically calculates a circuit path between the source and destination.
You select the circuit type, circuit size, bidirectional or unidirectional status, and
path-protection or protected drops restrictions. You can also route circuits
manually, for example, to force traffic onto a particular path. See the “Ethernet
Circuits” section on page 34 for a description of Ethernet circuits.
Figure 11 Creating circuits with the CTC Circuit Creation dialog box
Auto Range
CTC provides an auto-range feature that automatically creates sequential circuits,
which prevents you from needing to individually build circuits of the same type.
Specify the number of circuits you need, create one circuit, and CTC
automatically creates additional sequential circuits.