Cisco ONS 15454 and Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Ethernet Card Software Feature and Configuration Guide, Releases 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and 9.2.1

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•IEEE 802.3z (Gigabit Ethernet) and IEEE 802.3x (Fast Ethernet) Flow Control

N

•IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol

Y

•100BASE-FX full-duplex data transmission with Auto-MDIX (ML100X-8)

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•High-level data link control (HDLC)

N

•(GFP-F) framing mechanism for POS

Y

•POS virtual ports

Y (R 9.0 and above)

•LEX or Point-to-Point

Y

•Cisco HDLC

N

•Protocol/Bridging Control Protocol (PPP/BCP) encapsulation for POS

N

•VCAT with SW-LCAS

Y¹

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Transparent bridging

N

•MAC address learning, aging, and switching by hardware

N

•Protocol tunneling

N

•Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) protocol tunneling

N

•Integrated routing and bridging (IRB)

N

•IEEE 802.1Q-in-Q VLAN tunneling

Y

•IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and IEEE 802.1W Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)

N

•IEEE 802.1D STP instance per bridge group

N

•Ethernet over Multiprotocol Label Switching (EoMPLS)

N

•EoMPLS traffic engineering (EoMPLS-TE) with RSVP

N

•VLAN-transparent and VLAN-specific services (Ethernet Relay Multipoint Service [ERMS])

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Bridging as specified in the IEEE 802.17b spatially aware sublayer amendment

N

•Shortest path forwarding through topology discovery

Y

•Addressing including unicast, multicast, and simple broadcast data transfers.

Y

•Bidirectional multicast frames flood around the ring using both east and west ringlets.

N

•The time to live (TTL) of the multicast frames is set to the equidistant span in a closed ring and the failed span in an open ring.

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Per-service-quality flow-control protocols regulate traffic introduced by clients.

Y

•Class A allocated or guaranteed bandwidth has low circumference-independent jitter.

Y

•Class B allocated or guaranteed bandwidth has bounded circumference-dependent jitter. This class allows for transmissions of excess information rate (EIR) bandwidths (with class C properties).

Y

•Class C provides best-effort services.

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Clockwise and counterclockwise transmissions can be concurrent.

Y

•Bandwidths can be reallocated on nonoverlapping segments.

Y

•Bandwidth reclamation. Unused bandwidths can be reclaimed by opportunistic services.

Y

•Spatial bandwidth reuse. Opportunistic bandwidths are reused on nonoverlapping segments.

Y

•Temporal bandwidth reuse. Unused opportunistic bandwidth can be consumed by others.

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Weighted fairness allows a weighted fair access to available ring capacity.

Y

•Aggressive fairness is supported.

Y

•Single Choke Fairness Supports generation, termination, and processing of Single Choke Fairness frames on both spans.

Y

•RPR-IEEE plug-and-play automatic topology discovery and advertisement of station capabilities allow systems to become operational without manual intervention.

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Service restoration time is less than 60 milliseconds after a station or link failure.

Y

•Queue and shaper specifications avoid frame loss in normal operation.

Y

•Fully distributed control architecture eliminates single points of failure.

Y

•Operations, administration, and maintenance support service provider environments.

Y

•EoMPLS on RPR-IEE

N

•IP forwarding on RPR-IEEE

N

•Wrapping, the optional IEEE 802.17b protection scheme

N

• Steering, the protection scheme

Y

•Layer 3 control path routing

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Ethernet frame check sequence (FCS) preservation for customers.

N

•Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) error alarm generation

N

•FCS detection and threshold configuration

N

•Shortest path determination

N

•Keep alives

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Bundling of ports

Y

•Load based on MAC addresses

Y

•Load Sharing based on incoming VLAN

Y

•Load sharing based on Port

N

•IRB

N

•IEEE 802.1Q trunking

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Bundling the two POS ports

N

•LEX encapsulation only

N

•IRB

N

•IEEE 802.1Q trunking

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Default routes

N

•IP unicast and multicast forwarding

N

•Simple IP access control lists (ACLs) (both Layer 2 and Layer 3 forwarding path)

N

•Extended IP ACLs in software (control-plane only)

N

•IP and IP multicast routing and switching between Ethernet ports

N

•Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF) multicast (not RPF unicast)

N

•Load balancing among equal cost paths based on source and destination IP addresses

N

•IRB routing mode support

N

•IP host functionality

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Virtual Private Network (VPN) Routing and Forwarding Lite (VRF Lite)

N

•Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) Protocol

N

•Routing Information Protocol (RIP and RIP II)

N

•Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

N

•Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol

N

•Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)—Sparse, sparse-dense, and dense modes

N

•Secondary addressing

N

•Static routes

N

•Local proxy ARP

N

•Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

N

•Classless interdomain routing (CIDR)

N

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Multicast priority queuing classes

N

•Service level agreements (SLAs) with 1-Mbps granularity

Y

•Input policing

Y

•Guaranteed bandwidth (weighted round-robin [WDRR] plus strict priority scheduling)

Y

•Low latency queuing support for unicast Voice-over-IP (VoIP)

Y

•Class of service (CoS) based on Layer 2 priority, Layer 3 Type of Service/DiffServ Code Point (TOS/DSCP)

Y

•CoS-based packet statistics

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Point-to-Point topology (UNI to UNI)

Y

•Attribute Discovery Frames (ATD) for VLAN mapping

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Cisco IOS login enhancements

Y

•Secure Shell connection (SSH Version 2)

N

•Disabled console port

Y

•Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting/Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (AAA/RADIUS) stand alone mode

Y

•AAA/RADIUS relay mode

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) support on Ethernet ports

Y

•Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) relay

N

•Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) over 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FEC, GEC, and Bridge Group Virtual Interface (BVI)

N

•Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Cisco IOS

Y

•CTC

Y

•CTM

Y

•Remote monitoring (RMON)

Y

•Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Y

•Transaction Language 1 (TL1)

Y

•Simultaneous performance monitoring (PM) counter clearing in Cisco IOS, CTC, and TL1

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Automatic field programmable gate array (FPGA) Upgrade

Y

•Network Equipment Building Systems 3 (NEBS3) compliant

Y

•Version up to independently upgrade individual cards

Y

Y (R 8.5 and above)

•Framing Mode Provisioning

N

•Standard STS/STM and VCAT circuit provisioning for POS virtual ports

Y (R 9.0 and above)

•SONET/SDH alarm reporting for path alarms and other ML-Series card specific alarms

Y

•Raw port statistics

Y

•Standard inventory and card management functions

Y

•J1 path trace

Y

•Cisco IOS CLI Telnet sessions from CTC

Y

•Cisco IOS startup configuration file management from CTC

Y

¹ The ML-MR-10 card does not support interoperation between the LCAS and non-LCAS circuits..