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.

This lab provides users access to Nokia's Altiplano Access Controller for managing Passive Optical Networks (PON). It gives users access to a live network while providing an overview of Altiplano Access Controller and its applications.

This lab introduces users to Infinera's Intelligent Pluggable Manager (IPM) for managing ICE-X XR optics. Users will learn to use IPM to monitor the various aspects of ICE-X XR optics, their constellations, connectivity, and hosts.

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.