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Cisco NCS Optical Series

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What is Cisco NCS Optical Series?

The vendor states users can improve a network’s flexibility and cut costs with the Cisco NCS Optical Series. With its Circuit Emulation technology, the NCS Optical Series offers any-to-any connectivity, along with savings over traditional TDM transport architectures. Network operators…

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DWDM + MPLS done right

8 out of 10
April 16, 2021
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We use Cisco NCS Optical Series as a leaf on our CIN network. Currently use it on various sites and helps us converge networks. It will be …
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What is Cisco NCS Optical Series?

The vendor states users can improve a network’s flexibility and cut costs with the Cisco NCS Optical Series. With its Circuit Emulation technology, the NCS Optical Series offers any-to-any connectivity, along with savings over traditional TDM transport architectures. Network operators can use this…

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Product Details

What is Cisco NCS Optical Series?

The vendor states users can improve a network’s flexibility and cut costs with the Cisco NCS Optical Series. With its Circuit Emulation technology, the NCS Optical Series offers any-to-any connectivity, along with savings over traditional TDM transport architectures. Network operators can use this series to evolve their network for the future while supporting the delivery of legacy TDM services, in addition to OTN and Ethernet services.

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Score 8 out of 10
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We use Cisco NCS Optical Series as a leaf on our CIN network. Currently use it on various sites and helps us converge networks. It will be a replacement for nokia routers which we consider legacy. So far we have found it to be resilient, but working on a couple of bug fixes with Cisco.
  • Label switch routing.
  • Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile.
  • Ethernet switching.
  • iOS XR has SW bugs.
  • Monitor session not working well.
It is well suited as an aggregation layer for at a data center to converge multiple devices and technologies, as the device has multiple capabilities such as wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM), Optical Transport Network (OTN), Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP), Carrier Ethernet, and label switch router (LSR). Not appropriate for core.
  • As it supports up to 3 TB ps, support high-bandwidth.
  • No negative impact so far.
I have used Cisco 5000 series mostly as it has other L3 routing capabilities. We use it on core to route IS-IS, OSPF and also peer it on BGP.
Nokia 7750 Service Router (SR), Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS XR7
As it runs on XR there the config is very straightforward. We implement the design obtained from the engineering team and haven't had issues. I have opened few tickets to resolve any doubts and Cisco has been supportive so far.
It supports hundred-gig links and ten-gig links, and scalability hasn't been a problem with this device. It can used on distribution layer.
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