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In a CISCO 15454 ONS we recently had several resets of the TCC2P cards, more than once a day.The alarm description said "automatic system reset" and the TCC2P cards would change protection. We have some ethernet on a ETH-100 in the shelf which sees a...
When testing throughput either make sure there is no traffic on the network or use UDP as that should force the other traffic off the network. I like iperf using UDP as a PC based tool. No traffic on the network is best.
You will need a few PCs to ch...
Do you have more details of the problem you are having? Do you want to test a working WAN to get a benchmark or is it broken? One point is that it is always good to get a benchmark of the properly working WAN connection before it breaks, so you can c...
If you have a good TCC card, you could try removing both (bad) TCC cards, put in the good one, wait for it to come up and be active and then insert the other (bad) card in the standby slot. The good active TCC card should write over the software and ...
The commands to see the optical levels are above, show interface transceiver, sometimes show controllers interface has optical info, but the optical info may not show up if the SFPs are not recognized properly, a possible problem with non-Cisco SFPs ...
There's nothing to test the fiber directly, other than a separate fiber tester device like a light meter or an OTDRWhat is usually done is to compare the optical TX and RX levels on both sides, to ensure the signal is within range, if its within ran...