Impossible to tell you this. You did not give enough specifics such as what the connectivity is for (i.e. G or FC etc), and especially the distance from site to site or more specifically the fiber characterization/loss. If you ran this in MetroPlan...
Although 5 miles should not be an issue, also ensure the fiber does not need to have any dispersion compensation. One other side note to using the 15216, as it is a passive mux/demux system, future growth is potentially service affecting. It could ...
Can you tell me where you got that statement from? I would have to look at the context of it to answer the question, as I can see no reason why you could not place a standby port in a 1:1 card OOS. Please provide a little more info.
Its not so much distance limitation as it is power loss....If you go here:http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/ong/15400/index.htmchose the software version you require, then go to the DWDM ref doc, hardware spec section, and it will tell ...
