AINS (Automatic-In-Service) allows the controller to automatically move to automatic-in-service state after the maintenance window is completed. A soak time period is associated with AINS state. The controller automatically moves to In-Service (IS) state after the soak time period is completed.

The FEC configuration is automatically enabled only for the pluggables that are supported for Auto-FEC. If the user manually configures FEC, the manual configuration will override the Auto-FEC.

The supported pluggables for Auto-FEC are as follows:

• QSFP-100G-SR4-S

• QSFP-100G-CWDM4-S

• QSFP-100G-SM-SR

• QSFP-100G-AOC-1M

• QSFP-100G-AOC-3M

• QSFP-100G-AOC-10M

The user can create a GMPLS optical channel trail (OCH Trail) in a network where the NCS 1004 node is connected to a NCS 2000 series node. The OCH trail circuit originates from a NCS 1004 trunk interface (UNI-C) on the source NCS 1004 node and terminates on the NCS 2000 series interface (UNI-N) on the destination NCS 2000 series node to create an optical connection. In a ROADM network, the wavelengths can be automatically configured using GMPLS UNI.

During process restarts, CPU reload, or removal of CPU, the NCS1004 operates in headless mode for upto 72 hours. During this time, traffic is not impacted, even though the control plane is not up and running.

Idle insertion feature allows you to hold the propagation of Local Fault, when a fault occurs on the trunk port. This feature is enabled on the ethernet controller by configuring the hold-off timer.

Ethernet controllers can be configured to enable laser squelching so that the laser is brought down in the event of trunk faults (LOS, LOF) and a SQUELCHED alarm is raised.

The NCS 1004 provides AES256 based layer 1 encryption for 100GE clients. IKEv2 is used for authentication of the devices in an encryption session and the protocol provides pre-shared keys for authentication. GCC is the communication channel between two NCS 1004 nodes.

The LLDP packets that are received on the client controller are snooped and forwarded to trunk, by default. When LLDP drop is enabled on the client controller ports of the muxponder or muxponder slice, the LLDP frames are dropped on the ports without forwarding.

PM counters for the controllers can be retrieved in 30 second, 15 minute, or 24 hour intervals. These parameters simplify troubleshooting operations and enhance data that can be collected directly from the equipment.

When a USB device is inserted in NCS 1004, it is automatically mounted in sysadmin-vm with Read and Write permissions and unmounted in XR by default. The USB device is automatically mounted in sysadmin-vm only when the file system of the USB device is FAT or FAT32. This feature allows you to read from or write files and folders onto the USB device without explicitly mounting it. The mounted USB device can be accessed as disk2: file system.

Smart Licensing is a cloud-based, software license management solution that enables you to automate time-consuming, manual licensing tasks. The solution allows you to easily track the status of your license and software usage trends.

The licensed line card supports 400G, 500G, and 600G configurations. In the case of unencrypted licenses, licenses are charged on a per port basis for every 100G configured for configurations greater than 400G. However, for encrypted licenses, all ports are charged for any configuration.

The sub-sea feature is a special configuration that can be provisioned on the 1.2 Tbps line card to bring up optical links in a sub-sea network. This configuration involves configuring the following parameters on the optics controller to achieve spectral efficiency:

• Roll-off factor

• Non-linear compensation

• TIA colorless setting

• SOP tolerance

• RX VOA mode

• RX VOA setpoint

• Carrier phase recovery parameters

The 1.2Tbps card has two trunk ports (0 and 1) and 12 client ports (2 through 13). The 1.2Tbps line card can be configured in two modes:

• Muxponder-In this mode, both trunk ports are configured with the same trunk rate. The client to trunk mapping is in a sequence.

• Muxponder slice-In this mode, each trunk port can be configured independently of each other with different trunk rates. The client to trunk mapping is fixed. For Trunk 0, the clients are 2 through 7. For Trunk 1, the clients are 8 through 13.

The client data rates supported on the 1.2 Tbps card are 100GE and OTU4. The client ports can be configured with OTU4 only in the muxponder configuration mode. LLDP drop, L1 encryption, GCC, OTNSec, AINS, TCM level PM support, and Alarm monitoring are not supported on the OTU4 configuration. In OTU4 mode, laser squelch and hold-off timer are not supported. ODU-AIS is the fault propagation scheme supported on the client port. Only the ONS-QSFP28-LR4 pluggable supports dual rate (100GE and OTU4).

The data rates supported on the 1.2Tbps card are:

The following MIBs are supported in NCS 1004 Release 7.0.1:

Trail trace identifier (TTI) is used to identify the signal from the source to the destination within the network. You can configure the TTI sent or expected string in ASCII string format only. When the expected TTI string does not match the received TTI trace string, the controller goes down and the OTUK-TIM alarm is raised. TTI can be configured on the coherentDSP controllers.

Use the upgrade module location fpd all command to upgrade both the FPDs (LC_CPU_MOD_FW and LC_OPT_MOD_FW) of the 1.2T line card. FPD upgrades from R7.0.1 to later releases do not have an impact on the traffic. For R7.0.0 to R7.0.1 upgrade, traffic is impacted while upgrading LC_OPT_MOD_FW.

For more information about the firmware upgrade, see the System Setup and Software Installation Guide for Cisco NCS 1004

At least 16 GB RAM

For a complete list of supported optics, hardware and ordering information, see the Cisco NCS 1004 Datasheet.

To install the Cisco NCS 1004, see the Cisco NCS 1004 Hardware Installation Guide.