Advanced Services’ Designing and Selling Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform Solutions (Release 8.5)

2-Day Hands-On Course

Course Description

This lab-intensive course introduces you to the Cisco® ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) Release 8.5. You will learn the important theoretical concepts that underlie DWDM and how they are put to use in selling the Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP system. You will gain practical knowledge and skills to successfully run the Cisco TransportPlanner R8.5 software. You will be able to determine the right MSTP cards to use based on customer requirements. In six hands-on labs, you will learn to configure linear networks with OC-48 and Ethernet client circuits, an Optical Service Channel monitor node, a long linear with mixed client demands, rings with protected circuits, Ethernet and time-division multiplexing (TDM) overlay networks, and a mesh network with protected circuits. This course combines lecture materials and hands-on labs throughout to make sure that you are able to successfully design a Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP network.

Course Objectives

What you will learn:

• List and describe the major features and benefits of the Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP
• Download and activate Cisco TransportPlanner Release 8.5.1
• Input the required nodes and services according to customer requirements
• Input the requirements for unprotected and protected SONET/SDH client circuits using direct and transponder applications
• Input the requirements for unprotected and protected data circuits using direct and transponder applications
• Input the requirements for short linear, long linear, and ring topologies
• Input the requirements for Ethernet overlay networks and TDM overlay networks
• Input the requirements for the multiring (mesh) network

Prerequisites

The following are prerequisites for this course:

• Although there are no course prerequisites, a knowledge of DWDM and of the Cisco ONS 15454 product would be very useful.
• Students must bring their laptop computer (2 Gigabit processor, 1 Gigabit of memory required)

Course Outline