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Cisco Optical DWDM Sandbox

This lab provides a hands-on environment to get familiar with provisioning circuits on the Cisco Network Convergence System (NCS) 2000. This environment can also be customized and is used for our custom optical trainings.

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Which Optical Transport Architecture Is Right for You?

There are various transport network architectures, from strictly Layer 1 optical rings to meshed Layer 1 through Layer 3 converged networks. How do you decide? This article provides a high level overview of three different architectures, their typical use cases and benefits.

Mar 26, 2021

6 min read

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400G-ZR & ZR+: The Latest in Pluggable Coherent DWDM

The convergence of DWDM and routing technology -- are 400G pluggable DWDM optics the key to this long-sought union? Let's take a look.

Aug 11, 2020

8 min read

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400G Optics: Enabling Network Scale and Device Consolidation

How do you cost effectively interconnect 300,000 servers in one data center? Faster switches are a solution, sure, but that's only half the story. Learn how faster Optics are a must to realize the benefit of faster switching and routing technology.

Jun 4, 2020

6 min read

Cisco DWDM

As society continues to embrace a digital world and the adoption of next-generation technologies such as 5G grows, the need for increased bandwidth becomes even more crucial. Optical networking, specifically Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), is a key component of today's multi-layer, mission critical networks that helps Service Providers, large Enterprises, Public Sector and Federal institutions cope with this digital disruption. Using the Cisco NCS 2000 Series, you can deploy a simple, yet intelligent dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) network that scales with operational ease. The Cisco NCS 2000 Series delivers agility with a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), programmability, and massive scale across ultra-long-haul, metro, and enterprise optical networks.