resources that students of Cisco's 15454 may find helpful.

Cisco's 15454 resources.

Java v 1.3.1_02 for Windows: 

Information on default IP address, default username, default password, and recovering the IP address from a 15454 node.   Default settings

Cisco technical documentation home page: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/home/home.htm  This page has  an extensive library of free material on: switches, routers, firewalls and WAN technologies.

Cisco documentation on the 15454:

Specific Cisco ONS 15454 document.

ONS 15454 Procedure guide 4.6: ONS 15454 Procedure guide 5.0: ONS 15454 Reference manual 4.6: ONS 15454 Reference manual 5.0 ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide 4.6: ONS 15454 Troubleshooting Guide 5.0: ONS 15454 Ethernet Card Feature and Configuration Guide 5.0 Cisco ONS 15454 Engineering Planning Guide, Release 5.0 Adding and Dropping Nodes in a BLSR Ring Troubleshooting Direct PC Connections to the ONS 15454 TCC Card: Understanding the 15454 XC and XC-VT Switching Matrix: Creating VTT Circuits and VTs for the Cisco ONS 15454:

Helpful Tutorials.

A tutorial on IP addresses, network classes, subnet masks and routing:

IBM’s TCP/IP tutorial: http://www.issa-eastidaho.org/resources/tcpip_reference.pdf

Bob's configuring IP addresses on Windows 2000: Download here 

Configuring IP on Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP): http://www.prismproductivity.com/support/ipwin9x.htm

Bob's SONET Rings handout: Download here

Resilient Packet Ring tutorial (this is free, but it does require registration)

SONET tutorials:

Nortel

 

IT Papers

 

Juniper

 

Web Pro Forum

 

Acenera

 

Tektronix

 

 

Synchronizing SDH/SONET

http://www.aarnet.edu.au/engineering/resources/sdh/hp.sync.pdf

 

Stratum 3 Equipment Clock

 

 

Working with T3 and T1 – Sunrise Telecom

http://whitepapers.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025945,60012540p-39000466q,00.htm

 

Cisco - T1 Alarm Troubleshooting (and AIS)

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/116/T1_alarms.html

 

T1-service fundamentals - Digital Link

http://www.quickeagle.com/PDF/Services/t1svcfund.pdf

 

DS-3 fundamentals - from Acterna

 

 

Fiber-Optic Technology tutorial – IEC (registration required)

http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/fiber_optic/

 

DWDM Basics - from Acterna

 

DWDM tutorial - Fujitsu

 

 

Passive DWDM components - Agilent

http://www.educatorscorner.com/media/LW_basics2.pdf

 

Dispersion Compensation tutorial

http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/light_limit/

 

Optical Signal to Noise Ratio

http://www.circadiant.com/technology/tech/pdf/tb001.pdf

 

Chromatic dispersion – from Acterna

 

Fiber Amplifiers in the L & C bands

http://www.photonics.com/XQ/ASP/url.readarticle/artid.64/QX/readart.htm

 

Fiber Bragg gratings filter tutorial

http://oemagazine.com/fromTheMagazine/tutorial/tutorial101.html

 

Raman amplifiers for Long-Haul WDM

http://www.xtera.com/solutions/10590-743.pdf

 

Raman Amplification Design in WDM (registration required)

http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/raman/topic01.html

 

Polarization Mode Dispersion - (registration required)

http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/polar_mode/

 

MPLS tutorials from Nortel (basic and advanced)

http://www.nortel.com/solutions/providers/enabling_tech/mpls/tooldemo.html#

 

GMPLS (Optical Label Switching)

http://sierra.ece.ucdavis.edu/documents/090_Yoo_OLS_Kluwer2002.pdf

 

 

 

PREPARATION FOR THE CISCO OPTICAL SPECIALIST EXAM:

 

The Boson practice test for the Cisco Optical Specialist has 191 questions and can be found here: ExSim #1 for Cisco 642-311

 

 

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

Sonet/SDH Third Edition by Walter J. Goralski

SONET/SDH Demystified by Steven Shepard

Understanding Optical Communications by Harry J. R. Dutton

Routing in the Internet (2nd Edition) by Christian Huitema

  IP Routing Protocols: RIP, OSPF, BGP, and Cisco Routing by Uyless Black