Product Bulletin, No. 1729

Cisco ONS 15800 rel. 1.6.5 - ANSI Version

Cisco ONS 15801 rel. 1.4.5 - ETSI Version

SW Maintenance Release # 5

Introduction

The Cisco ONS 15800 / ONS 15801 DWDM system is a field proven, Internet scale, carrier class optical transport platform that allows service providers to maximize the use of installed fibers over long-haul networks, and it can scale with the exponential growth of the Internet traffic. Combined with other Cisco products, the Cisco ONS 15800 / ONS 15801 enables carriers to build a flexible end-to-end optical solution that meets the requirements of carrier-class reliability. The multiple band design of the Cisco ONS 15800 / ONS 15801 allows carriers incomparable flexibility to deploy applications and add wavelengths as needed. This feature, combined with an open systems architecture, makes the Cisco ONS 15800 / ONS 15801 the most adaptable DWDM system available.

NEW SW FEATURES

AVAILABILITY

COMPATIBILITY

ORDERING INFORMATION

NEW SW FEATURES

SW Agent released within this maintenance release is able to run on CMP-W and CMP-W-2E.

This allows customers having the ONS 15800 rel. 1.6 / ONS 15801 rel. 1.4 that want to upgrade in the future their network, a smooth migration to ONS 15800/ ONS 15801 release 2.0.

AVAILABILITY

Cisco ONS 15800 / 15801 releases are orderable from CCO.

To download the new software, you may connect to the link http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/specialaccess.cgi and insert the special access code that is provided when a product is ordered. In case of problems you may contact your sales representative.

The following SW products are available on CCO:

Detailed description of the outstanding issues, SW limitations and restrictions may be found at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2016/tsd_products_support_series_home.html on the ONS 15800 rel. 1.6.5 and ONS 15801 Rel. 1.4.5.

For more information about DDTS caveats, entitled CCO users may go to http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl

or contact Technical Assistance Center by writing to tac@cisco.com

COMPATIBILITY

For SW and FW backward compatibility details, go to: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2016/products_tech_note09186a0080094ba8.shtml

ORDERING INFORMATION

ONS 15800 / 15801 SW is orderable from CCO.

The ONS 15800 / ONS 15801 rel. 1.6.x software can be ordered from your sales representative or on-line. Specific product codes and descriptions are detailed below.

For more information on the Cisco ONS 15800/01, go to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2016/index.html.