The Cisco ONS 15540 Extended Service Platform (ESP) is a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transport platform aimed at the Metro DWDM Enterprise market. With the Cisco ONS 15540 ESP, users can take full advantage of the availability of dark fiber to build a common infrastructure that supports data networking, storage area networks (SANs), business continuance, time-division multiplexing (TDM), and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)/ Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) traffic. The Cisco ONS 15540's protocol independent DWDM technology allows customers to increase backbone bandwidth with enhanced capability for ESCON, 1Gb and 2 Gb Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, 10Gigabit Ethernet and Digital Video applications.

Features

• Compact modular design
• Fault tolerant
• Hot-swappable modules
• Fully integrated end-to-end connectivity
• Multiprotocol transparent support
• Ethernet
• Fast Ethernet
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Enterprise System Connection (ESCON)
• Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
• Token Ring
• ATM OC3/STM1, OC12/STM4, and OC48/STM16
• Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET)/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
• Packet over SONET (POS)
• Fiber connectivity (FICON)
• Fibre Channel
• Standards-based Management SNMP, CiscoView, and Cisco Transport Manager
• Wavelength conversion (transponder) CPE wavelength: 1310 nm to 1550 nm
• Bit rate and format transparency from 16 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps
• 3R (signal retime, regenerate and reshape) capability
• 100-GHz (0.8 nm) channel spacing based on ITU-T G.692
• Up to 32 channels per fiber, (64 in a fiber pair) in a point-to-point, hubbed and ring topology