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10-Gbps Full-Band Tunable Multirate Enhanced
Transponder Card for the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice
Transport Platform
The Cisco
®
ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) supports a 10-Gbps Full-Band
Tunable Multirate Enhanced Transponder Card which simplifies the integration and transport of 10
Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel, and OC-192/STM-64 interfaces and services into
enterprises or service provider optical networks (Figure 1).
Figure 1. 10-Gbps Full-Band Tunable Multirate Transponder Card
Background
Optical transport networks must support numerous service demands, from low-rate DS-1/T1, DS-
3/E3, 10/100BASE-T, and OC-3/STM-1 to higher-rate OC-12/STM-4, Gigabit Ethernet, OC-
48/STM-16, OC-192/STM-64, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet services. In the recent past, SONET add-
drop multiplexers (ADMs) provided the services platform to aggregate and transport services up to
OC-48/STM-16, whereas dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) platforms were
designed for optical signals from OC-3/STM-1 to OC-192/STM-64, including Gigabit and 10 Gigabit
Ethernet. Unfortunately, deploying multiple platforms (including DWDM and SONET ADMs) to
support multiple services is not cost-effective for many service provider and enterprise networks.
The Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP with transponder, muxponder and Xponder cards provides a more
cost-effective networking solution to enable the delivery of all services, from lower-speed DS-1/E1,
high-density 2.5 Gbps, and high-bandwidth OC-192/STM-64.

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