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Cisco Routed Optical Networking

Unleash operational simplicity, network efficiency, and energy savings

Streamline management, upgrades, and services.

Significantly lower your CapEx, OpEx, and energy consumption


62 %

Reduction in TCO over five years

Find out how Cisco Routed Optical Networking can reduce your network CapEx, energy consumption, footprint, and labor costs.

Discover the economic benefits of routed optical networks for DCI, metro, and long-haul applications.

Converge IP and optical

Reduce your CapEx up to 60% by simplifying your network transport with Cisco industry-leading, coherent pluggable optics that deliver DWDM functionality directly from router ports.

Lower environmental expenses

Decrease your power and facilities costs by up to 83% by lessening the need for transponders and optical transport equipment in your network.

Streamline network operations

Save up to 68% in OpEx by simplifying and accelerating network planning, operations, and troubleshooting with multilayer and multivendor automation, orchestration, performance monitoring, and assurance.

Ready your network for growth

Discover the future benefits of coherent pluggable optics that can expand your network capacity to 800G and extend your 400G transport to several thousand kilometers.

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Optimize networks and improve efficiency

What is Cisco Routed Optical Networking?

Routed Optical Networking is an architecture that delivers improved network efficiencies and operational simplicity. It does this by converging IP and optical layers of the network and delivering coherent wavelengths directly from router ports using standardized 400G ZR/ZR+ pluggable optics. With a routed optical network, wavelength services can be delivered using Private Line Emulation (PLE) while maintaining service-level agreements and characteristics such as guaranteed bandwidth and persistent bidirectional paths.

Cisco QSFP-DD 400G ZR+ High-Tx Power

Extend reach and compatibility in high insertion loss systems with better optical transmit power.

Cisco QSFP-DD 400G ZR/ZR+

Transmit 400G wavelengths up to 120 km with coherent ZR, and long-haul transmission with OpenZR+.

Cisco QSFP-DD 400G ER1

Connect unamplified links point-to-point up to 45 km with 400G coherent wavelengths.

Cisco QSFP-DD Pluggable Open Line System

Get optical amplifier/multiplexer functionality in a pluggable form factor deployed in routers.

Cisco 8000 Series Routers

Scale to meet the needs of your infrastructure with this new class of routers.

Cisco NCS 5500 Series

Handle metro traffic growth with the port density of the industry-leading 100 GbE and 400 GbE series.

Cisco NCS 5700 Series

Improve your network flexibility and scalability with these high-performance routers.

Cisco NCS 500 Series

Scale up your access networks with a secure routing platform. 

Cisco ASR 9000 Series

Expand your bandwidth demands with these feature-rich routers that can help you power up to 5G.

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches

Extend 100G/400G/800G switching performance with high-speed data center interconnect. 

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation

Advance closed-looped automation with visibility, data-driven insights, and intent-based actions.

Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance

Create digital experiences built on deep network observability and critical network monitoring.

Cisco NCS 1000 Series

Increase the capacity, control, and visibility throughout your network. 

Cisco NCS 1010 Series

Modernize with this next-generation, open optical line system. 

Private Line Emulation (PLE)

Maintain SLAs and deliver wavelength services with circuit-style segment routing.

PLE Modular Port Adapter

Flexibly transfer wavelength services over MPLS networks while preserving signal characteristics.


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What converged IP and optical transport can unlock for you

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Simplify high-bandwidth transport networks

Explore this Cisco Live session to discover Routed Optical Networking use cases across data center interconnect, metro, and WAN that can help you simplify, scale, and increase the efficiency of your transport network.