At the same time accessibility to dark fiber is increasing with fiber installation continuing to run at record levels in excess of millions of kilometers per year.
Service providers require a low-cost solution for lighting fiber over long distance.
This new regenerator is the first IP-addressable optical regenerator with Cisco IOS support. Cisco ONS 15104 provides monitoring and insertion of both the B1 and C1 bytes. The Cisco ONS 15104 will also monitor for B1 parity errors and generate the appropriate alarms. In addition a standby local oscillator is provided to allow communication during network failures. It utilizes the DCC channel to provide IP addressing.