Cisco Optical Booster Amplifier

The Cisco® ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) provides a comprehensive, intelligent dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) solution for expanding metropolitan (metro) and regional bandwidth.

The Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP offers optical amplifiers for extending the reach of a metro or regional network. The optical amplifier cards are part of the Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP intelligent DWDM architecture engineered to reduce DWDM complexity and speed the deployment of next-generation networking solutions.

The Cisco ONS 15454 optical amplifier cards are plug-in modules that take advantage of proven Cisco ONS 15454 carrier-class features. These cards deliver the reach and optical performance to support a single DWDM channel all the way to 40 channels today (designed for 80-wavelength operation) - to meet the requirements of service provider and enterprise networks. Table 1 outlines the optical amplifier plug-in card types available for the Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP with the applications they are designed to support.

This product amplifies the outgoing composite DWDM signal to overcome the attenuation of the fiber network. It integrates an optical service channel splitter or combiner to allow the optical supervisory channel (OSC) to be sent to and received from the optical service channel module (OSCM) card. Deployment locations include any site that requires additional signal level.