Cisco Optical Network Planner Configuration Guide, Releases 26.x.x

Modify media channel properties

Updated: March 9, 2026

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Overview

Teaches you how to modify media channel properties. Follow these detailed step-by-step instructions carefully to ensure the specific configuration is applied correctly and securely within your network.

Follow these steps to modify properties of the media channel.

Before you begin

Procedure

	1.	Open the network where you want to modify the media channel properties.
	2.	Choose Network > Entity Editor.
	3.	In the Entity Editor window, click the Services tab, and click a media channel.
	4.	Modify the media channel properties as required. See Media channel properties.
	5.	Click Update.

Media channel properties

This table describes various media channel properties.

Table 1. Media channel properties
Property	Platform	Description	Available options	Default option
General
Label	NCS 2000	Displays the media channel name.	Ã¢â‚¬â€	By default, the media channel is named based on the source and destination sites and the number of media channels between them. For example, if there are two media channels between site 1 and site 2, they are named as Site-1-Site-2-1 and Site-1-Site-2-2, respectively. Edit the name if required.
Source Site	NCS 2000	Displays the source site name.	Ã¢â‚¬â€	Ã¢â‚¬â€
Destination Site	NCS 2000	Displays the destination site name.	Ã¢â‚¬â€	Ã¢â‚¬â€
Traffic Type	NCS 2000	Select the traffic type.	Optical Source 100GE 10GE LAN PHY 40GE LAN PHY Fiber Channel 10G Fiber Channel 16G Fiber Channel 8G OC-192/STM-64 OTU2 OTU2e OTU4 Pluggable Card	Optical Source
Protection Type	NCS 2000	Select the protection type. For Client 1+1, ensure that the sites have contentionless sides for the analysis to be successful. By default, Cisco ONP finds both span and node disjoint path for Client1+1 protected waves, but allows you to force span and node disjoint path.	Unprotected Client 1+1	Unprotected
Forecast	NCS 2000	Check this check box to change a present wave to a forecast wave.	Ã¢â‚¬â€	Ã¢â‚¬â€
Encryption	NCS 2000	Check this check box to enable encryption.	Ã¢â‚¬â€	Ã¢â‚¬â€

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