Course Overview
The course provides an introduction to Cisco NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP solutions for existing optical Channel Partners as well as those invited to join the Cisco optical program. The course is targeted at account managers, pre-sales engineers and system engineers, who need to sell, design, architect, and implement NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP solutions.
Who should attend
This course is for technical professionals who are responsible for designing, selling, installing, deploying, and maintaining the Cisco NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) network. Network operations, planners, and designers can also benefit. Targeted roles include:
- Existing or new Cisco Optical Partners selling Cisco optical solutions
- Network design engineers
- System engineers
- Network operations engineers
Prerequisites
The knowledge and skills students should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Basic knowledge of optical transport and protocols
- Basic knowledge of data network principles
- Basic knowledge of Cisco NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP Series platforms
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Describe metro DWDM usage and typical solutions in today's market
- Describe the evolution of DWDM technology and development of key new features such as Single module ROADM (SMR), FlexSpectrum, Mesh technology
- Describe the competitive advantages and intelligent features of the Cisco NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP platforms
- Describe the architecture of the Cisco NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP platform
- Design typical basic DWDM network topologies
- Identify the shelf layout and cards and their features for the NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP platforms
- Describe the key elements of DWDM network design
- Identify the steps used to turn up a network and create DWDM circuits with the use of Cisco Transport Planner design tool
- Identify the basic DWDM protection schemes and explain how to build multi-layer redundancy
- Explain how the CTC and Prime Optical are used as end-to-end network management tools for the NCS 2000 and ONS 15454 MSTP platforms