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Cisco ONS 15530 Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Cisco ONS 15530 Overview
Cisco ONS 15530 Components
8-Port FC/GE Aggregation Cards
The Cisco ONS 15530 supports a line card specifically for ISC (compatibility and peer mode), FICON,
FC (Fibre Channel) and GE (Gigabit Ethernet) traffic. The 8-port Fibre Channel/Gigabit Ethernet
aggregation card accepts up to eight SFP (small form-factor pluggable) optics for client traffic. Each SFP
optic supports either FC or GE, depending on how it is configured in the CLI. The 8-port FC/GE
aggregation card converts client signals from two adjacent port pairs (0–1, 2–3, 4–5, or 6–7) from optical
form to electrical form, and then aggregates them into four 2.5-Gbps signals. These aggregated signals
pass through the backplane and the switch fabric on the active CPU switch module to a 2.5-Gbps ITU
trunk card, a 10-Gbps ITU trunk card, or a 10-Gbps uplink card. The cross connections between the two
cards through the backplane and switch fabric are configured using the CLI. The 8-port FC/GE
aggregation card has redundant connections over the backplane to the switch fabric on the active and
standby CPU switch modules. (See Figure 1-23).
3. 1000BASE-LX
4. FC-0-100-SM-LC-S standard