This lab will demonstrate the Cisco NCS-1004 transponder system's functionality and a common use case: adding it to an existing DWDM system as an "alien" device utilizing "alien" wavelengths.

In the data center and between data centers, you need a solution that can meet the challenge of the exponential growth in traffic and the pressures on networks caused by digitization. Greater scale, agility and programmability are also needed to rapidly respond to an increasingly dynamic service environment. The purpose of this lab is to demonstrate the provisioning of 2 NCS 1002's in a point-to-point configuration; commonly used for interconnecting geographically diverse data centers (DCI). We will configure various client and trunk rates across 2 of the 4 available "slices" on each box utilizing the native IOS-XR Command Line Interface (CLI).