Specifications

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Chapter 6 Example Shelf Configurations and Topologies
Shelf Configurations
Figure 6-30 shows the optical power budget for a switch fabric based line card protected configuration.
Figure 6-30 Optical Power Budget for Switch Fabric Protected Configurations Using Nonsplitter
10-Gbps ITU Trunk Cards
Figure 6-31 shows an example of a Cisco ONS 15530 shelf in a switch fabric based line card protected
configuration with an ESCON aggregation card and two 10-Gbps uplink cards.
Figure 6-31 Switch Fabric Based Protected Configuration Using 10-Gbps Uplink Cards
0.5 dB
From client
To trunk
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4.1 dB
Nonsplitter
10-Gbps
ITU line card
OADM
module
0.5 dB
To client
From trunk
4.1 dB
OADM
module
Nonsplitter
10-Gbps
ITU line card
ESCON
CPU switch CPU switch
10-Gbps uplink
Power
supply 0
Power
supply 1
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10-Gbps uplink