Metro Core Solution

Deliver High Performance with DWDM
The service network needs metro core or interoffice facility rings to interconnect edge rings and deliver traffic to service points of presence (POPs). Cisco Metro Core solutions deliver dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) capabilities with high capacity, efficient service aggregation, and high reliability.

Meet All Your DWDM Needs
Now you do not have to choose multiple point products to meet all your DWDM needs. You can configure the hybrid Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) as either an advanced multiservice provisioning platform (MSPP) or a DWDM system.

Offer Exceptional Efficiency and Flexibility
These intelligent DWDM capabilities provide a pragmatic approach to wavelength switching in metro core networks, for any wavelength or location. Cisco reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) technology provides exceptional levels of operational efficiency and flexibility and delivers:

• Dynamic and automated signal conditioning
• Sophisticated power control algorithms

Our solutions help enable a converged metro core network build-out. They provide a DWDM platform that supports carrier-class time-division multiplexing and packet switching and photonic switching technologies. Use them with Cisco MSPPs at the metro edge to deliver much greater bandwidth and more services than ever.

Metro Core Supports IP NGN Convergence
Metro core with DWDM capabilities interconnects edge rings and delivers traffic to service PoPs with the emphasis on capacity, efficient service aggregation, and reliability.

Cisco Metro Core Solution in the Optical Metro Networks
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Components of the optical solution include:

• Metro Core interconnects edge rings and deliver traffic to service PoPs with the emphasis on capacity, efficient service aggregation, and reliability.
• Metro Edge gives service providers the ability to offer both traditional revenue services such as ATM, Frame Relay, Voice, leased line, wireless and DSL as well as new services such as content networking, Wide-area Ethernet and wireless data.
• Long-Haul addresses increased channel counts, span reach, and the associated flexible optical add-drop multiplexor (OADM) capabilities.
• Service POP grooms traffic from the metro network, perform edge packet switching when IP services are enabled, and perform backbone switching.

Cisco 15600 Series Multiservice Switching Platform (MSSP)
This SONET/SDH solution integrates metro core and metro edge networks, and extends carrier-class availability and management.

Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP)
This MSTP is the most widely deployed metro and regional DWDM solution in the world and delivers any service type to any location.

Cisco ONS 15454 SONET Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP)
This MSPP lets you meet your voice, video, and data service needs with a single SONET platform.

Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP)
With this solution, you can meet your voice, video, and data service needs with a single SDH platform.

Cisco ONS 15200 Series Metropolitan DWDM Systems
These systems promote exceptional transport flexibility and efficiency with the first wavelength-to-the-building metro DWDM solution.

Cisco Transport Manager
This advanced optical transport domain manager can extend the full power of the Cisco ONS 15000 Series to your operations, personnel, and back-office systems.