Optical Network Design and Implementation

G-Series Provisioning of Ethernet over SDH

The G-Series card in production is known as the G1K-4 card. The Cisco ONS 15454 SDH integrates Ethernet into an SDH TDM platform. The ONS 15454 SDH supports the G-Series G1K-4 Ethernet card. The G1K-4 card maps up to four GE interfaces onto an SDH transport network. A single card provides scalable and provisionable transport bandwidth at the signal levels up to VC4-16C per card. The card provides line rate forwarding for unicast, multicast, and broadcast Ethernet frames and can be configured to support up to 10,000 byte jumbo frames. The G-Series card incorporates features optimized for carrier-class applications, such as high-availability performance under software upgrades and all types of SDH equipment ...