16-AD-CCOFS Card
In this chapter, "16-AD-CCOFS" refers to the NCS2K-16-AD-CCOFS card.
The 16-AD-CCOFS card is a single slot add or drop card that provides colorless, contentionless, omnidirectional, and flex spectrum capability on 16 channels over 4 ROADM directions. The card receives the same wavelength from 16 transponder cards and forwards it to different ROADM nodes without collision. This capability is achieved using multicast switches. 2 or 3 16-AD-CCOFS cards can be connected using upgrade ports to provide the add/drop capability on 16 channels over 8 or 12 ROADM directions respectively.
Each add/drop port pair in the card is:
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Colorless - forwards any wavelength on a specific port
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Contentionless - adds/drops the same wavelength from the same add/drop section to different directions
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Omnidirectional - connects to both the add and drop directions
The 16-AD-CCOFS card can be installed in any service slots in the Cisco NCS 2006 and NCS 2015 chassis. The 16-AD-CCOFS card works only in the Cisco NCS Flex node.
Key Features
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Has a 16x4 multiplexer and a 4x16 demultiplexer.
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Monitors optical power on the input ports through optical photo diodes and raises alarms when the threshold is exceeded.
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Supports tone detection on the input ports in the add direction.
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Provides a multicast switch that does not block any wavelength and does not have any optical filtering element.
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Has fixed gain EDFA amplifiers in the add or drop directions to compensate for high optical insertion loss. The gain is -1 dB in the drop direction and -2 dB in the add direction.
For more information about the 16-AD-CCOFS card, such as the block diagram and card specifications, see the data sheet.