Specifications

Chapter 8 Optical Networking

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Sample Metro Optical Transport Solution Overview

Cisco ONS 15216 Metro DWDM Series

The Cisco ONS 15216 Metro DWDM solution

supercharges wavelength services by supporting up

to 32 ITU-grid wavelengths, and provides

unprecedented transport flexibility with optical

filtering, Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing (OADM),

Optical Performance Monitoring and Amplification.

It allows service providers to deliver more services

per wavelength and more wavelengths per fiber.

The Cisco ONS 15216 Metropolitan Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM)

FlexLayer filter solution is an ultraflexible filter architecture that allows cable multiple

system operators and service providers to build “pay-as-you-grow” networks with the

flexibility to upgrade in-service without preprovisioning channels that are not required. This

approach creates a more desirable per-wavelength cost.

The FlexLayer architecture allows for deployment of point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, ring,

bus, and tree-and-branch architectures. These networks can be deployed as unprotected or

protected networks, and they may also be deployed in transmit-only applications for broadcast

networks. This flexibility is inherent in the design of the FlexLayer architecture.

For More Information

See the ONS 15216 Metro DWDM System Web site:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps1996/ps1999/index.html