Optical Ports (Spectra Only)

The Optical Ports section on the left-hand side of the screen displays a quick summary of the state of all of the ONS-S8 Aggregation Switch's optical ports (OPT 1 - OPT 8).

The 5 possible states are:

• active
  The laser is on and Edge Switches are connected.
  
  
• link down 
  The laser is on, but no Edge Switches are detected or it is in redundant protect mode and no light is detected in the fiber.
  
  
• disabled
  The laser has been manually disabled.
  
  
• protect
  The laser is off but detecting light in the fiber connection.
  
  
• no SFP
  There is no SFP physically plugged into the OPT port.

In a redundant system, where one of the system's ONS-S8 Aggregation Switches is completely in active mode (passing traffic on all of its lasers) and the other ONS-S8 Aggregation Switch is completely in protect mode (in standby and not passing traffic on any of its lasers), the systems' Optical Ports sidebar displays would look like this:

  

For more information on ONS-S8 optical ports (i.e. lasers) and redundancy, please see the following articles:

• Lasers 
• Setting Up Redundancy on Optigo Connect Spectra™ Systems