Cisco NCS 2000 Series SVO

Additional payloads in OTN Cross-Connect Operating Mode on 400G-XP Card

The OTN cross-connect (OTNXC) operating mode on the 400G-XP card supports OTU2E, OC-192, STM-64, and OTU-4 payloads. With these additional payloads, the 400G-XP Card is fully functional with OTN Cross-Connect functionality for 10/100G client protocols over 100/200G DWDM wavelengths. You can have optimized utilization of the DWDM trunk capacity in the network.

Admin Plane UI Enhancements

The following admin plane UI enhancements are done to improve the user experience:

• SVO containers now have the limit memory besides the reseved memory. The limit memory is a threshold that is set by the Admin Plane at 2 GB higher than the reserved memory. When you configure the reserved memory, the Admin Plane automatically assigns the limit memory that is shared by the SVO containers. The limit memory acts a buffer to absorb the temporary peak memory requirements.

• In IP Assignment Policy page, you can enter multiple IP addresses using Range, List, and Wildcard inputs. This approach reduces the tedious and error-prone task of manually typing multiple IP addresses.

• Troubleshooting menu is introduced to perform on-demand health checks on the network infrastructure and identify the common misconfiguration. You can view the report in the Network Troubleshooting page.

• The new Properties menu enables you to easily modify and customize multiple admin plane properties. This menu reduces the task of manually editing each property file in the local system.

Display the Number of Active Circuits

You can now view the total number of active circuits passing through a particular card on a degree. The active circuit count is visible on the Node Functional View window of the SVO Web User Interface.

Export PM Data for SVO Card

From this release onwards, you can download the complete PM data for an SVO card through the SVO Web User Interface. This data can be used offline for device monitoring. The downloaded data is in an Excel format and is collated for the past 15 minutes and 1-day time duration.

This feature eliminates the need for individually accessing data for each PM parameter separately.

DCN Extension

External links are the logical links between two optical degrees that belong to two adjacent nodes. From this release, you can add one or more external links on a node using different optical degrees configured on that node. The creation of an external link allows the management of a remote node and these external links are used when it is not possible to create an optical-service-channel (OSC) communication.

FPD Upgrade for MR-MXP Card

The SVO web interface now displays the running firmware information for the MR-MXP card. It also displays the latest available firmware for the NCS 2000 software release. You can compare and upgrade the firmware to the required release directly from SVO.

FPD Upgrade for Passive Chassis

The SVO web interface allows you to make an FPD upgrade for the passive chassis NCS2K-MF-6RU and NCS2K-MF10-6RU to the latest version released as part of the NCS 2000 software release. You can selectively upgrade the versions of BOOTROM, OS_BOOT, and OS_KERNEL, one by one, directly from SVO.

License Deployment from SVO for NCS 2000 cards

After procuring licenses from the Software Licensing Tool, the SVO web user interface now allows you to install, rehost, save these licenses, and save device credentials on the following line cards:

• 9-SMR17FS

• 9-SMR24FS

• 9-SMR34FS

Only three express (EXP) ports are active by default on these cards. This feature allows you to activate the remaining EXP ports using a license. You can use those ports to create the required ROADM services.

Managing 15216-FLD-4 in SVO

You can now manage ten new Cisco ONS 15216 4 Channel Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (OADMs), which are passive FLD units in a 100-GHz channel plan.

These passive FLD units in SVO provide Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) to address the edge of the optical network in a cost-effective manner.

Card and Port Status LED

You can now accurately identify the status of a card and a port through different LED colors. A card has following color indicators:

• Green- active; represents card is operational

• Red- inactive; represents hardware issue

• Amber- inactive; represents signal fail and loss of frame

In addition to the gray color, which indicates the inactive state of a port, A port has following color indicators:

• Green- active

• Red- inactive; represents availibility of major alarms

• Yellow- active; represents availibility of minor alarms

Remote Node Management Using General Communication Channel (GCC)

You can manage remote nodes using fiber optics connection through GCC channels. You can only use the Cisco Light Web UI bring up the remote nodes.

SVO extends card provisioning on the NCS 2002 Chassis

This release enables you to provision the control cards on slot 1 and the following service cards on the slots 2 and 3 of the NCS 2002 chassis:

• Transponder and muxponder cards

• Optical service channel cards

• Optical amplifier cards

• Optical add/drop cards

• Reconfigurable optical add/drop cards

You can set operating mode, and provision features that are supported on these cards.

You can also monitor performance, view fault monitoring details, and download and activate the latest available software package for SVO.

Software Upgrade Enhancements

The following Software Upgrade enhancements are done:

• The software repository capacity is increased to maintain up to eight software packages. The Software Packages tab lists the packages and their contents. This feature improves the installation process by making more packages readily available for activation.

• The operating system of the SVO device can be remotely upgraded from the Device Software tab. This eliminates the need to perform an on-site operating system upgrade of the SVO device.

• An "Active session" label is displayed against the SVO card in the Device Software tab to indicate that it is running the active SVO session. This makes it simple to identify the active SVO card for operating system upgrades.

Suboperating modes on 1.2T-MXP card

The new suboperating mode OPM-2x100G-DD is introduced on the 1.2T-MXP card to configure 6x100GE muxponder mode exclusively for QDD clients. Also, the 9x100GE muxponder mode can now be configured using OPM-3x100G-DD suboperating mode.

These muxponder modes add the capability to configure QDD-400G-DR4-S pluggable in the breakout mode on all three slices with different data rates.

Layer 3 Management Network Connectivity through BGP

Management interconnection for servers or VMs in different locations is now supported at Layer 3 through the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This simplifies the management of the Admin Plane servers by using core routers, which use the BGP applications in the VMs to route to the correct SVO instances. This approach allows you to configure the same management subnet for the SVO instances and different management subnets for distributed servers or VMs. Unlike in L2, which uses multiple protocols, the L3 management network needs only the BGP protocol to improve the performance of the network.