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NCS 1010 New Hardware Support

Cisco ONP now supports the new PIDs from the NCS 1000 family. This allows you to plan your NCS 1010 network while leveraging the LC connector interfaces of NCS 1010, NCS1K14-CCMD-16-C, and NCS1K14-CCMD-16-L line cards.

The new properties that support the new PIDs are:

• NCS 1010 Line Card—Allows you to select a line card; these options are available:

  • Standard Faceplate-NCS1K-OLT-C, NCS1K-OLT-L, NCS1K-ILA-C, NCS1K-ILA-L, NCS1K-OLT-R-C, NCS1K-ILA-R-C, NCS1K-ILA-2R-C

  • Enhanced Faceplate- NCS1K-E-OLT-C, NCS1K-E-OLT-L, NCS1K-E-ILA-C, NCS1K-E-ILA-L, NCS1K-E-OLT-R-C, NCS1K-E-ILA-R-C, NCS1K-E-ILA-2R-C, NCS1K-E-ILA-R-C-2, NCS1K14-CCMD-16-C, NCS1K14-CCMD-16-L

• Degree Priority—Allows the choice of LC and MPO ports for degree interconnection.

• Direct LC Add/Drop—Allows to choose the number of LC ports for direct Add/Drop connection.

• Add/Drop Connector—This circuit-level property allows you to choose a specific add/drop type for individual circuits. Available options — Direct OLT, OLT+BRK-8/16/24, OLT+CCMD-16

• Colorless Add/Drop:

  Under MPO Connector Add/Drop, you can choose a breakout module.

  Under LC Connector Add/Drop, you can choose NCSK14-CCMD-16-C or NCSK14-CCMD-16-L.

New Network Level Properties

New Network Level properties are introduced under Advanced Optical Settings for NCS 1010 network. You have the flexibility to define custom values for the following properties for the Raman span and validate the optical circuit feasibility.

• Amplifier Gain Range

• Connector Loss

• Minimum OSNR Margin

• Minimum Span Loss for Raman Amplifiers

• Percentage of Fibers with Higher Aging Loss

• Generate Cross-Connect

• Maximum OSC Reach for NCS 1010Raman Amplifiers

• Retain Auto Placed Raman Spans for Failure

• Freq Allocation Order

• Link Power Control

• Gain Estimator

• OTDR

Export Cisco Optical Site Manager (COSM) NETCONF File from NCS 1010 network

The new Generate COSM NetConf XML option allows you to export from the Cisco Optical Network Planner, the Cisco Optical Site Manager NETCONF XML files for all the NCS 1010 nodes. You can then upload these files to the NCS 1010 nodes through the Cisco Optical Site Manager, enabling automatic bring-up of the NCS 1010 nodes.

Automated Selection of Optimal Wavelength Bitrate: Flexible Modelling

You can now automate the calculation of optical sources for your networks using the new Line Rate Tuner Mode. This mode reduces human errors while finding the correct optical source for your network from a set of network resources.

Layer-2 SMR Enhancement to Support Second and Third Port Extension

This enhancement allows you to extend the contentionless sides in a ROADM site, increasing the number of provisioned contentionless sides in the NCS 2000 networks. New contentionless sides increase the number of traffic channels in the NCS 2000 networks. The new Reserve Cascaded SMR Port property reserves more SMR ports to extend the Layer-2 contentionless sides in a ROADM site.

4K-2K SSON Network Creation Support

Now you can include the 4K-2K nodes in both SSON and non-SSON networks while designing the network. This helps you to validate 4K-2K nodes in the SSON design which has higher line rates.

Power Consumption and Unit Weight Report

Now, you can generate the power consumption and unit weight report for each product ID (PID). In the layout tab, you can see the power consumption and unit weight values and export them into Excel as a report for a single site or all sites. With prior knowledge of power consumption and weight details for each PID, you can plan and design an energy-efficient network.

The new options that allow you to view and export the reports are:

• Show Typical Power Consumption

• Show Max Power Consumption

• Show Unit Weight

• Power Consumption & Weight

Intuitive Map Display

The new intuitive map display allows you to virtually rearrange networks for a clutter-free view without impacting the original design. This display simplifies adding new nodes to complex networks. Save the last modified network in the new view to retain the latest rearrangement. The new icons in the Design Palette that enable the intuitive display are:

• Switch to Intuitive Arrangement/Switch to Coordinates Arrangement—Toggles the map between the intuitive and original displays.

• Rearrange nodes—Overrides node coordinates and rearranges the map in a presentable manner.

Network Tree Enhancements

Now, you can use the Ellipsis icon at the right side of each element in the Network tree to perform various actions such as Expand All, Collapse All, Enable Multi-Select, and so on. Also, you have multiple entity-level options to filter the elements under the Network tree. These enhancements make the Netwrok tree more intuitive.

Database Operations Optimization

Cisco ONP now provides an option to run some operations in the background involving database interaction, such as Save As, Import CPZ, and Export CPZ. You can continue to use the Cisco ONP interface for other operations when these operations are running in the background.

NCS 2000 Network Analysis Error Message Improvements

The error messages that are displayed during the analysis of the NCS 2000 network are improved. It now includes the primary cause of the issue and the OTN service to which the error is associated.