Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFP Data Sheet

 

Product overview

The Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFP portfolio (formerly Accedian Skylight SFP Compute Sensor) offers customers a wide variety of high-performance Gigabit Ethernet pluggable service assurance and demarcation options for enhanced mobile, Carrier Ethernet, and IP service deployments.

Fully integrated with the Provider Connectivity Assurance platform, Assurance Sensor SFPs support service delivery automation, scalable metric collection, and reporting with actionable insight and machine learning-driven analytics to enable accelerated service rollout and improved operational efficiency.

10G Short-Reach (SR) Transceiver

10G Long-Reach (LR) Transceiver

10G Extended-Reach (ER) Transceiver

Features and benefits of Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs

●     Compatible with other IEEE-compliant interfaces where applicable.

●     Certified and tested on Cisco SFP+ platform ports for superior performance, quality, and reliability.

●     Tested interoperability with standard Cisco SFP+ transceivers.

●     End-to-end service performance assurance features include:

◦    Service Activation Testing (SAT).

◦    Performance Monitoring (PM).

●     Features a fully featured FPGA capable of active Layer 2-4 traffic generation and measurement.

●     Ideal for cost- and space-sensitive applications by avoiding usage of additional rackspace.

●     Transceiver firmware and FPGA can be upgraded in network.

●     Communications with Provider Connectivity Assurance platform using IP address.

●     Industrial temperature range operation.

Table 1.           Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFP Portfolio

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) using the Provider Connectivity Assurance platform and Sensor SFPs

Using the Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs, the platform provides the following measurements and testing capabilities including:

●     TWAMP: Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol

●     ETH-DM: Ethernet Delay Measurement

●     ETH-LB: Ethernet Loop Back

●     ICMP Echo: Internet Control Message Protocol Echo

●     UDP Echo: User Datagram Protocol Echo

●     ETH-VS: Ethernet Vendor Specific

KPIs include:

1. Synthetic active assurance and testing

One-way delay, PDV, and IPDV (jitter)

●     Min/max/average

●     Median (p50)

●     Percentile 25/75/95/96/98/99

●     Standard deviation

One-way packet statistics

●     Packet lost (number and %)

●     Loss bursts

●     Longest loss burst

●     Shortest loss burst

●     Reordered packets (number and %)

●     Packets duplicated (number and %)

One-way packet field and QoS metrics

●     IP TOS max (DSCP diffserv)

●     IP TOS min

●     TTL max/min

VLAN Pbit max/min

●     ETH-OAM MEG level max/min

●     MOS

●     R-value

Meta metrics

●     Session ID

●     Interval sequence number

●     Interval timestamp (UTC)

●     Interval length (Report interval)

●     Up or downlink direction

2. Service Activation Testing (SAT)

Throughput validation – circuit readiness

●     RFC2544 generation and reflection

●     Y.1564 generation and reflection

3. Bandwidth metering

Throughput metrics

●     Min Throughput – Per Flow

●     Average Throughput – Per Flow

●     Max Throughput – Per Flow

Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFP zero-touch provisioning

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and IPv4/IPv6 management make these Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs easy and secure to deploy and manage. The Assurance Sensor SFP IP address can be assigned dynamically or manually.

ZTP is fully integrated with the Provider Connectivity Assurance platform. It also supports service delivery automation and scalable, real-time metrics collection and reporting of actionable insights for delivery and machine learning needed for accelerated service rollout and improved operational efficiencies.

Performance

TWAMP

●     Maximum sessions: 4000 @ 20 PPS/session

●     Maximum number of PPS: 80000 (share across the 4000 sessions)

●     Maximum rate per session: 250 PPS/session @ maximum session = 320

Traffic loopback

●     TWAMP reflector @ line rate for unlimited number of stateless sessions

●     TWAMP reflector @ line rate for up 16 TWAMP stateful sessions

●     User-configurable loopback Layer 2 to Layer 4 at line rate

RFC2544 and Y.1654

●     Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs support full line-rate test traffic generation.

●     Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs can create and analyze up to four Layer 2 or 3 unique fully fledged RFC-2544 and Y.1564 Service Activation Test (SAT) suite toward the Assurance platform or third-party endpoints.

◦    This allows service providers to test a service path at turn-up and revalidate on-demand the capacity of a specific path or service during maintenance windows or when troubleshooting.

●     Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs can be located anywhere in the network, removing the limitation and expense of required head-end test equipment.

●     Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs support SAT testing at line rate for any packet size with 1-usec delay measurement accuracy.

Flowmeter

●     The flowmeter capability precisely measures bandwidth and reveal transient peaks or microbursts that cause TCP throughput delays.

●     Using Provider Connectivity Assurance platform, flowmeter processes per-flow bandwidth usage metrics from Sensor SFP time-stamps, and byte and packet counters, to accurately report minimum and maximum average bandwidth metrics for configurable reports on sub-second sampling intervals.

●     When correlated together with packet loss and other measurements, service providers can detect network bottlenecks and plan capacity—key metrics to assure and enforce the delivery of off-net services.

●     The flowmeter capability separately monitors upload and download usage statistics.

●     Flowmeter’s per-service metering enables usage-based billing, burst detection, trending, and traffic pattern analysis.

Platform support

Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs are supported on Cisco platforms. For more details, refer to the Transceiver Module Group (TMG) Compatibility Matrix.

Technical specifications

Table 2.           Cabling specification

Table 3.           Optical transmit and receive specifications

Table 4.           General specification

DOM

Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM) functions according to industry standard SFF-8472 Multisource Agreement (MSA). This feature gives the end user the ability to monitor real time parameters of the SFP, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current and transceiver supply voltage.

IEEE-1588 PTP

●     Class B

Encryption

●     The control protocol is encrypted for authentication and after that the control protocol is signed. The encryption is Grain128a

GR-3108

●     Class 2

Export classification

●     5A991.b

Management

●     SFF-8742

●     Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance platform

Firmware update

●     Via Provider Connectivity Assurance platform

Module weight

●     Weight: Typically 75 grams or less

Environmental conditions (noncondensing)

●     Operating temperature range:

◦    Industrial temperature range -40 to 85C (-40 to 185F): S10G-LR-PM-D-I, S10G-ER-PM-D-I

◦    Extended temperature range -5 to 85C (-10 to 185F): S10G-SR-PM-D-I

●     Storage temperature range: -40 to 85C (-40 to 185F)

Ordering information

Warranty

Standard warranty: 1 year

●     Expedited replacement available via a Cisco SMARTnet service support contract

Regulatory and standards compliance

Standards:

●     GR-20-CORE: Generic Requirements for Optical Fiber and Optical Fiber Cable.

●     GR-326-CORE: Generic Requirements for Single-Mode Optical Connectors and Jumper Assemblies.

●     GR-1435-CORE: Generic Requirements for Multifiber Optical Connectors.

●     IEEE 802.3: 10-Gigabit Ethernet (some exceptions for S10G-SR-PM-D-I).

●     SFP+ MSA SFF-8431 (Optical Transceivers, Active Optical Cables, and Passive Twinax cables).

●     SFF-8742 Management Interface for SFP+

Safety:

●     Laser Class 1 21CFR-1040 LN#50 7/2001

●     Laser Class 1 IEC60825-1

Product sustainability

Table 5.           Product sustainability

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Additional information

For more information about Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor SFPs, contact your sales representative or visit https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/products/networking/optics-transceiver-modules/index.html.

Document history

Table 6.           Document history