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Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Installation and Operations Guide, R6.0
December 2006
Appendix B      Hardware Specifications
B.5.6 TXP_MR_10E Card Specifications
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1558.17 to 1561.01 nm (four channels)
L-band frequency plan (five card versions, each with eight tunable channels on the ITU 50-GHz 
grid):
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1577.44 to 1580.35 nm (eight channels)
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1580.77 to 1583.69 nm (eight channels)
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1584.11 to 1587.04 nm (eight channels)
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1587.46 to 1590.41 nm (eight channels)
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1590.83 to 1593.79 nm (eight channels)
• Receiver (trunk side)
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Receiver: APD
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Link loss budget: 24 dB minimum, with no dispersion or 22 dB optical path loss at 
BER = 1 * 10 exp – 12 including dispersion
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Receiver input wavelength range: 1290 to 1605 nm
• Line (client side): 
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10-Gigabit Small Form-factor Pluggable (XFP)-based SR
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Bit rate: 10GE (10.3125 Gbps), 10G FC (10.51875 Gbps), or STM-64/OC-192
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Code: Scrambled NRZ 
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Fiber: 1310-nm single-mode 
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Maximum chromatic dispersion allowance: 6.6 ps/nm 
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Loopback modes: Terminal and facility
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Connectors: LC 
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Compliance: Telcordia GR-253-CORE, ITU-T G.707, ITU-T G.957, ITU-T G.691
• Transmitter (client side)
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Maximum transmitter output power: –1 dBm 
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Minimum transmitter output power: –6 dBm 
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Center wavelength: 1290 to 1330 nm
Table B-22 TXP_MR_10E Receiver Trunk Side Specifications
OSNR
1
FEC Type Pre-FEC BER Post-FEC BER
Input Power 
Sensitivity
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Chromatic Dispersion 
Tolerance
30 dB Off <10 exp – 12 N/A  – 8 to – 20 dBm +/– 1200 ps/nm
26 dB Off <10 exp – 12 N/A  – 8 to – 20 dBm + – 1000 ps/nm
26 dB Off <10 exp – 12 N/A  – 8 to – 22 dBm —
17 dB Standard <10 exp – 5 <10 exp – 15   – 8 to – 18 dBm +/– 800 ps/nm
15 dB Standard <10 exp – 5 <10 exp – 15   – 8 to – 18 dBm —
15 dB Enhanced <7 x 10 exp – 4 <10 exp – 15   – 8 to – 18 dBm +/– 800 ps/nm
14 dB Enhanced <7 x 10 exp – 4 <10 exp – 15   – 8 to – 18 dBm —
1. Optical Signal-to-Noise ratio (OSNR) defined with 0.1 nm Resolution Bandwidth (RBW)
2. Receiver filter bandwidth greater than or equal to 180 pm (at – 3 dBm)