This book provides comprehensive procedures for managing optical transport platforms. It covers card modes, controller settings, performance monitoring, Layer 1 encryption, Smart Licensing, and application hosting, helping service providers optimize network reliability, security, and scalability across diverse optical network deployments.
Cisco NCS 1004 Overview
Introduces the Cisco NCS 1004 optical transport platform, covering its key features, benefits, interoperability requirements, and specifications for various supported line cards.
Configuring the Card Mode
Details how to configure card modes, including muxponder and slice configurations, for various NCS 1004 line cards. It covers data rate settings, split client port mapping, regeneration modes, and specific procedures for OTN-XP, 2-QDD-C, and QXP line cards.
Configuring Controllers
Details the configuration of optics, Ethernet, and Coherent DSP controllers on Cisco NCS 1004 line cards. It covers critical management features including AINS, FEC, laser squelching, protection switching, and diagnostic tools to ensure robust optical networking performance.
Performance Monitoring
Learn to configure and retrieve performance monitoring data for Optics, Ethernet, and coherent DSP controllers to detect network issues. This guide details command procedures for setting thresholds, managing historical data persistence, and clearing counters to ensure optimal system health and simplified troubleshooting operations on the NCS 1004.
IP Access Lists
Provides instructions for configuring and verifying IPv4 and IPv6 access control lists on the NCS 1004 platform. Users can define permit or deny statements to effectively manage packet flow and secure management interfaces using both hardware and software programming paths.
Layer 1 Encryption
Details the implementation of Layer 1 encryption using OTNSec and IKEv2 on Cisco NCS 1004 platforms. This chapter guides users through configuring authentication methods, managing security associations, ensuring FIPS compliance, and troubleshooting common session issues to secure client traffic across fiber-optic networks.
Quantum-Safe Encryption Using Postquantum Preshared Keys
Provides procedures for implementing manual and dynamic keys to protect IKEv2 and OTNsec data from quantum-computing vulnerabilities. It details configuration using RFC 8784 and the SKIP protocol, while covering Type 6 password encryption and session verification methods.
GMPLS UNI for Packet and Optical Integration
Provides technical instructions for implementing Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) User Network Interface (UNI) to integrate packet and optical networks. It covers configuration workflows, tunnel setup, and verification procedures to optimize network resource utilization and improve service efficiency across Cisco NCS platforms.
Remote Node Management
Configure and implement General Communication Channel interfaces to manage NCS 1004 nodes without direct Ethernet connectivity. This guide details how to enable GCC0, GCC1, and GCC2 interfaces and establish network reachability through OSPF, static routing, and internal BGP sessions.
Smart Licensing
Provides instructions for configuring and managing Smart Licensing on the Cisco NCS 1004. It explains how to register devices, monitor license consumption, and utilize different transport modes to ensure compliance across various line card configurations and network deployments.
USB Device Automount
This chapter details the configuration procedures for managing USB devices on the NCS 1004, including how to mount and unmount drives within the sysadmin-vm and XR-vm environments. Users can leverage these commands to facilitate file storage and transfer operations directly on the hardware.
Fault Profiles
Configuration procedures, management tasks, and CLI command guidelines for creating and applying custom fault profiles to manage data path alarm severities on Cisco NCS 1004 systems.
OC Support for AAA User
Outlines the implementation of task-based authorization, allowing authorized XR VM users to access router administration data via NETCONF and gRPC. It describes how the system maps user task groups to the System Admin VM, streamlining administrative access without requiring redundant user profiles on the admin instance.
Implementing Host Services and Applications
Explains how to configure HTTP Client settings and manage file transfers on Cisco IOS XR routers. It also details using the TCP Dump File Converter to transform binary packet traces into readable formats, enabling efficient network troubleshooting and connectivity analysis.
Implementing Certification Authority Interoperability
Configures Certification Authority interoperability on the Cisco NCS 1004 to enable secure device communication through digital certificates. This guide details essential procedures for generating RSA key pairs, establishing trustpoints, and managing certificate enrollment to support secure network protocols like SSL and SSH.
NCS 1004 Application hosting
Explains how to deploy and manage third-party applications and scripts on NCS 1004 devices using Docker containers and the App Manager. It provides instructions for configuring resource limits, installing RPM packages, and automating operational tasks to extend device functionality and improve network management.
Packet I/O Functionality and Hosting Applications
Illustrates how, with the Packet I/O functionality, you can use Linux applications to manage communication with the IOS XR interfaces. It describes how the OS environment must be set up to establish packet I/O communication with hosted applications.
Supported SNMP MIBs on NCS 1004
This section lists the SNMP MIBs supported on the NCS 1004 and provides links to related documentation and configuration guidance.