Cisco 15454 card

Cisco ONS 15454 ML-Series Ethernet Cards The Cisco ML-Series cards for the ONS 15454 MSPP are the industry's highest performance Ethernet and IP switching modules ever integrated into a SONET/SDH optical transport platform. The ML-Series cards further extend the multiservice capabilities and flexibility offered by the Cisco ONS 15454 platform. Through the integration of the industry's most widely deployed and tested Ethernet and IP technology, Cisco IOS, with the industries most successful multiservice provisioning platform, the Cisco ONS 15454, service providers and enterprise customers are provided with a single integrated platform for delivering true carrier-class metro Ethernet, TDM, and Optical transport services and applications.

The Cisco ONS 15454 ML-Series consists of two interface cards, models ML100T-12 and ML1000-2. The ML100T-12 is a 12-port, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet module. The ML1000-2 is a two-port gigabit Ethernet module utilizing SFP optical interface modules. The ML-Series cards use a common hardware and software base, providing the same Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set. These single-slot cards can be installed in any of the 12 multiservice interface slots in an ONS 15454 shelf assembly, and can be mixed and matched within the assembly or network to enable flexible architectures to meet the user's application. Each card has "virtual" interfaces that are mapped to SONET/SDH optical interfaces for transport with other services between network elements over 155 Mbps to 10 Gbps optical line rates. Packet transport bandwidth over the chosen optical interface is provisionable, enabling efficient matching and scalability of ingress to transport traffic requirements, based upon over-subscription requirements.

The ML-Series cards offer an advanced set of quality of service (QoS) features to allow the network administrator to fine-tune the network and enable the creation and support of a wide range of SLAs