Cisco ONS 15454 ML-Series Ethernet Cards

The Cisco ML-Series interface cards provide exceptional Ethernet switching and IP routing capabilities for multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPPs). Cisco Systems has coupled the market-leading optical capabilities of the Cisco ONS 15454 MSPP with proven Cisco IOS Software to deliver profitable Metro Ethernet and IP solutions over a multiservice network architecture.

The Cisco MultiLayer-Series (ML-Series) for the Cisco ONS 15454 consists of three interface cards: the Cisco MultiLayer (ML) 100X-8, MultiLayer (ML) 100T-12, and MultiLayer (ML) 1000-2 models. The Cisco ML100X-8 is an 8-port, 100-Mbps Ethernet interface card that supports the 100BASE-FX short-reach Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) and 100BASE-LX long-reach SFP. The Cisco ML100T-12 is a 12-port, 10/100-Mbps Ethernet module. The Cisco ML1000-2 is a 2-port Gigabit Ethernet module using SFP optical interface modules. The Cisco ML-Series cards use a common hardware and software base, providing the same Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set. These single-slot cards can be installed in any of the 12 multiservice interface slots in a Cisco ONS 15454 shelf assembly and can be mixed and matched within the assembly or network to provide flexible architectures to meet the user's application needs. Each card has virtual interfaces that are mapped to SONET/SDH optical interfaces for transport with other services between network elements over 155-Mbps to 10-Gbps optical line rates. Packet transport bandwidth over the chosen optical interface is provisionable, allowing efficient matching and scalability of ingress to transport traffic requirements, based upon oversubscription requirements.

The Cisco ML-Series cards support proprietary Resilient Packet Ring (SW-RPR), which provides increased bandwidth usage over a SONET/SDH ring. SW-RPR features also include shortest-path selection and spatial reuse for bridging. The Cisco ML-Series offers standards-based 802.17b RPR. In addition to the features of SW-RPR, 802.17b RPR benefits include steering protection and standardized ring fairness.

The Cisco ML-Series cards offer an advanced set of quality-of-service (QoS) features to allow the network administrator to fine-tune the network and create and support a wide range of SLAs.

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Cisco 15454 ML Ethernet Card Specs

Attribute	Cisco ML100T-12 and ML100X-8	Cisco ML1000-2
Client Interfaces
Ports
• Card	Cisco ML100T-12: 12 RJ-45 Cisco ML100X-8: Eight SFPs (100BASE-FX or 100BASE-LX)	Two SFP slots (SX or LX SFP)
• Shelf (maximum 12 cards)	Up to 144	Up to 24
• Rack (maximum four shelves)	Up to 576	Up to 96
Speed	Cisco ML100T-12: 10/100 Mbps Cisco ML100X-8: 100 Mbps	1000 Mbps
Autonegotiation of duplex mode	Cisco ML100T-12: Yes Cisco ML100X-8: Fixed at 100 Mbps	Yes
Flow control pause	Yes	Yes
SONET/SDH Virtual Interfaces
Ports	Two	Two
Circuit size	SONET: STS-1, -3c, -6c, -9c, -12c, and -24c (virtual concatenation: STS-1-2v, STS-3c-2v, and STS-12c-2v) SDH: VC-3, -4, -4-2c, -4-3c, -4-4c, and -4-8c (virtual concatenation: VC-3-2v, VC-4-2v, and VC-4-4c-2v)	SONET: STS-1, -3c, -6c, -9c, -12c, and -24c (virtual concatenation: STS-1-2v, STS-3c-2v, and STS-12c-2v) SDH: VC-3, -4, -4-2c, -4-3c, -4-4c, and -4-8c (virtual concatenation: VC-3-2v, VC-4-2v, and VC-4-4c-2v)
Maximum card bandwidth	SONET: STS-48 SDH: VC-4-16	SONET: STS-48 SDH: VC-4-16
Encapsulation	Generic framing procedure framing (GFP-F) and virtual concatenation (VCAT) Cisco High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) (RFC 2615) and Bridge Control Protocol (BCP) (RFC 2878) LAN extension (LEX) (Cisco G-Series compatible)	GFP-F and VCAT Cisco HDLC PPP (RFC 2615) and BCP (RFC 2878) LEX (Cisco G-Series compatible)
Protocols
Layer 3 switching	IP switching, static routes, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), VPN routing and forwarding (VRF-lite with OSPF, BGP, and RIP), QoS, IP Multicast (Protocol Independent Multicast dense mode [PIM-DM], PIM sparse mode [PIM-SM], PIM-SM-DM, Internet Group Management Protocol [IGMP], Source Specific Multicast [SSM], and Multiprotocol BGP [MBGP])
Layer 2 switching	Ethernet switching and bridging (802.1D), VLAN (802.1Q), priority (802.1p), spanning tree (802.1D), rapid spanning tree (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol [RSTP], 802.1w), flow control (802.3x), Cisco Fast EtherChannel® technology, Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel technology, PoS Channel (PEC), 802.1Q in 802.1Q, per VLAN rapid spanning tree (PVRSTP) switching
QoS
Classifiers (ingress: 254 classes)	IP Precedence Input interface (port) Bridge group (VLAN) Priority (802.1p) DSCPs	IP Precedence Input interface (port) Bridge group (VLAN) Priority (802.1p) DSCPs
Policing	1-Mbps rate limiting (sustained rate and burst) Dual CIR and peak information rate (PIR) leaky bucket (port) Admission control to prevent overcommitment	1-Mbps rate limiting (sustained rate and burst) Dual CIR and PIR leaky bucket (port) Admission control to prevent overcommitment
Queuing	400+ scheduling queues Load and committed bandwidth-based buffer control, 4000 packet buffers, and tail drop Low-latency queues	400+ scheduling queues Load and committed bandwidth-based buffer control, 4000 packet buffers, and tail drop Low-latency queues
Schedulers	WDRR	WDRR
Cisco Modular QoS command-line interface (CLI)	Supported	Supported
Statistics
Ethernet ports
• Receive	Bytes, packets, unicast packets, multicast packets, broadcast packets, giants, frame-check-sequence (FCS) errors, runts, jabber, and alignment errors
• Transmit	Bytes, packets, unicast packets, multicast packets, broadcast packets, giants, and collisions
Virtual ports (PoS)
• Receive	Pre-HDLC bytes, post-HDLC bytes, packets, short, runts, long, cyclic-redundancy-check (CRC) errors, input drop packet, and input abort packet
• Transmit	Pre-HDLC bytes, post-HDLC bytes, packets, and port drop counter
Security
Access control list (ACL)	Standard IP on input and output of routed packets Standard IP on input of bridged packets Extended IP to limit control-plane access 4000 entries per card
Ethernet
Bridge groups (card)	255	255
Supported 802.1Q VLAN range	1 to 4095	1 to 4095
Hierarchical VLANs (.1Q in .1Q)	255	255
Spanning-tree instances (802.1D)	255	255
Per-VLAN rapid spanning tree (PVRST) instances	255	255
Maximum-transmission-unit (MTU) sizes	64 to 9000 bytes	64 to 9000 bytes
Link aggregation • Client interfaces • Virtual interfaces (Pos channel)	Cisco Fast EtherChannel links (maximum four links per group), 2 ports per link or 1 link	Cisco Gigabit EtherChannel links (maximum 2 links per group), 2 ports per link or 1 link
Cable	Cisco ML100T-12: Shielded twisted-pair (STP) Ethernet cable, RJ-45 plug connector (NEBS locations) Cisco ML100X-8: Optical fiber, LC connector, single- or multimode (refer to Table 6)	Optical fiber, LC connector, single- or multimode (refer to Table 6)
Performance
Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching	Up to 5.0 Mbps	Up to 5.0 Mbps
Management Interfaces
Data	Cisco IOS Software CLI through console port, Telnet, configured user (client) port, or Cisco transport controller window Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps
Transport (SONET/SDH)	Cisco transport controller or Transaction Language One (TL-1) using Telnet or serial port SNMP traps and TL-1 autonomous messages
Cisco ML-Series card • Console port	RJ-11 jack and data communications equipment (DCE)	RJ-11 jack and DCE
TCC card • LAN access and Cisco transport	RJ-45 jack and 10BASE-T	RJ-45 jack and 10BASE-T
Controller • Serial port	DB-9 jack	DB-9 jack
Security	Multilevel access control, data, and transport planes
Card LEDs • Failure (FAIL) • Status (ACT) Port LEDs (per port) • Link (LINK) • Activity (ACT)	Red Green Green Amber (flash)	Red Green Green Amber (flash)
Performance Monitoring
SONET (virtual ports)	Path terminating equipment (PTE); the following SONET/SDH path alarms are supported: • Alarm indication signal (AIS) • Loss of pointer (LoP) • Unequipped (UNEQ) • Remote failure indicator (RFI) • Trace identifier mismatch (TIM) • Bit error rate signal fail/signal degrade (SF/SD) • Path trace (J1 byte) - Transmit and receive
SNMP traps	Spanning Tree Protocol traps: Bridge-MIB (RFC 1493) Authentication trap: RFC 1157 Link-up and Link-down traps for Ethernet ports: IF-MIB (RFC 1573) and SONET/SDH MIB (RFC 2558)
Power
Card	53W	49W
Physical
Size	Single card slot 12.65 H x 0.72 W x 9.00 D (in.) 32.13 H x 1.83 W x 22.86 D (cm)	Single card slot 12.65 H x 0.72 W x 9.00 D (in.) 32.13 H x 1.83 W x 22.86 D (cm)
Weight	2.59 lb (1.17 kg)	2.48 lb (1.12 kg)
Operating Environment
Temperature	23 to 131°F (-5 to 55°C)	23 to 131°F (-5 to 55°C)
Humidity	5 to 95%, noncondensing	5 to 95%, noncondensing
Storage Environment
Temperature	-40 to 185°F (-40 to 85°C)	-40 to 185°F (-40 to 85°C)
Humidity	5 to 95%, noncondensing	5 to 95%, noncondensing

Systems Requirements

Component	Cisco ONS 15454 SONET	Cisco ONS 15454 SDH
Processor	TCC+or TCC2	TCC2
Cross-connect	Cisco 15454 XC1, XC-VT, XC-10G, or XC-VXC-10G	Cisco 15454 XC-10G, XC-VXL-10G, XC-VXL-2.5G, or XC-VXC-10G
Shelf assembly	Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS), NEBS3E, and ANSI versions with appropriate fan tray assembly	European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) version with SDH 48V fan tray assembly
System software	Cisco ML100T-12 and ML1000-2: Revision 4.0.0 or greater Cisco ML100X-8: Revision 6.0.0 or greater	Cisco ML100T-12 and ML1000-2: Revision 4.0.0 or greater Cisco ML100X-8: Revision 6.0.0 or greater
Slot compatibility	Cisco 15454 XC and XC-VT: Slots 5, 6, 12, and 13 Cisco 15454 XC-10G and XC-VXC-10G: Slots 1 to 6 and 12 to 17	Cisco 15454 XC-10G, XC-VXL-2.5G, XC-VXL-10G, and XC-VXC-10G: Slots 1 to 6 and 12 to 17