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Ciena’s 3926 Platform allows the creation of value-added business or mobile backhaul services that combine connectivity with in-demand Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), as well as support for legacy TDM services. The 3926 can address today’s most challenging network scenarios, providing flexibility and future-proof attributes that de-risk business decisions while allowing for fast time to market.

Why 3926?

Unmatched flexibility

The 3926 provides unmatched flexibility to address multiple applications, business models, and deployment environments without sacrificing service capabilities or quality of service. The platform supports interworking between multiple transport options via a flexible and scalable switching architecture, leading to complete service ingenuity and optimal utilization of network resources.

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Secure zero-touch provisioning

Ciena’s zero-touch provisioning simplifies system turn-up and enables device deployment, service turn-up, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance testing to be run from the network operations center. This efficiency can significantly lower OPEX, eliminating the need for on-site personnel or adjunct test equipment and ensuring consistent, reproducible test reports made available to the end-user. Operators can ramp service roll-outs faster, and at lower cost.

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Features

Offers 82 Gb/s of non-blocking switching capacity in a compact service demarcation device, running Ciena’s SAOS for advanced OAM and QoS functions

Low footprint 1RU in a nonblocking architecture with: - 6 x 1GbE/10GbE SFP+ ports - 2 x 100M/1GbE ports

Allows a field replaceable module for distributed VNF hosting on an Intel x86 server module or for TDM service supporting: -16 x DS1/E1 - 6 x DS1/E1 + 4 x DS3/E3 + 4 x OC3/12 / STM1/4 or 1 x OC48/STM16

Ciena MCP multi-layer support for end-to-end network management control and planning

Allows for orchestration via Ciena’s Blue Planet MDSO or third party; a truly open platform for integration of best-in-breed software functions

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for rapid, secure, and error-free turn-up of services

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Specs

+ SAOS 10.x – Router Configuration

Ethernet

Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) including Ingress Metering/Egress shaping
IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridging (Q-in-Q) VLAN full S-VLAN range
IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) prioritization
IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T via copper SFP
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet
Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling
Link Aggregation (LAG): Active/Active; Active/ Standby
Jumbo frames to 9216 bytes
Per-VLAN MAC Learning Control
VLAN tunneling (Q-in-Q) for Transparent LAN Services (TLS)

MEF CE 3.0 Compliant

E-LAN: EP-LAN, EVP-LAN
E-LINE: EPL, EVPL
E-Tree: EP-Tree, EVP-Tree

Carrier Ethernet OAM

Dying Gasp with Syslog and SNMP Traps
IEEE 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
ITU-T Y.1731 Performance Monitoring (SLM; DMM) Y.1731 Client Signal Fail (CSF)

Synchronization

External Timing Interfaces:
- BITS in or out (1.544Mb/s, 2.048MHz and 2 Mb/s)
- GPS in or out (1.544MHz, 2.048MHz, and 10MHz)
- 1pps and ToD in or out
Line Timing Interfaces:
- 1GbE/10GbE In and Out
ITU-T G.8262/G.8264 EEC option1 and option2
ITU-T G.8262 Synchronous Ethernet
Stratum 3E oscillator

Networking Protocols

ISO10598 IS-IS intra-domain routing protocol
RFC1195 Use of OSI Is-Is for Routing in TCP/IP and Dual Environments
RFC1321 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
RFC1812 Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
RFC1930 Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)
RFC1997 BGP Community Attribute
RFC1998 An Application of the BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing
RFC2270 Using a Dedicated AS for Sites Homed to a Single Provider
RFC2328 OSPF Version 2 BGP
Prefix Independent Convergence draftietf-rtgwg-bgppic-08.txt; EVPN VPWS Flexible Cross-Connect Service; draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-fxc-01.txt
RFC2439 BGP Route Flap Damping
RFC2475 An Architecture for Differentiated Services
RFC2519 A Framework for Inter-Domain Route Aggregation
RFC2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
RFC2697 A Single Rate Three Color Marker
RFC2698 A Two Rate Three Color Marker
RFC2764 A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks
RFC2873 TCP Processing of the IPv4 Precedence Field
RFC2865 Remote Authentication Dial in User Service (RADIUS)
RFC2918 Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
RFC3031 Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
RFC3032 MPLS label stack encoding
RFC3107 Support BGP carry Label for MPLS
RFC3215 LDP State Machine
RFC3260 New Terminology and Clarifications for Diffserv
RFC3359 Reserved Type, Length and Value (TLV) Codepoints in Intermediate System to Intermediate System
RFC3443 MPLS TTL processing
RFC3719 Recommendations for Interoperable Networks using IS-IS
RFC3787 Recommendations for Interoperable IP Networks using IS-IS
RFC4250 Protocol Assigned Numbers
RFC4271 A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
RFC4360 BGP Extended Communities Attribute
RFC4364 BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
RFC4632 Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan
RFC4684 Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
RFC4760 Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
RFC4762 Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) Signaling (HVPLS)
RFC5004 Avoid BGP Best Path Transitions from One External to Another
RFC5036 LDP Specification
RFC5037 Experience with the LDP protocol
RFC5301 Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS
RFC5302 Domain-Wide Prefix Distribution with Two-Level IS-IS
RFC5303 Three-Way Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies
RFC5309 Point-to-Point Operation over LAN in Link State Routing Protocols
RFC5398 Autonomous System (AS) Number Reservation for Documentation Use
RFC5462 Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: “EXP” Field Renamed to “Traffic Class” Field
RFC5492 Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
RFC5561 LDP Capabilities
RFC5668 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
RFC5681 TCP Congestion Control
RFC6241 Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)
RFC6310 Pseudowire (PW) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Message Mapping
RFC6793 BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
RFC7737 Label Switched Route (LSP) Ping and Traceroute Reply Mode Simplification
SR-MPLS TI-LFA Topology Independent Fast Reroute using Segment Routing draftietfrtgwg-segment-routing-ti-lfa-01
RFC8572 Secure Zero Touch Provisioning (SZTP)
RFC7911 Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP

+ SAOS 6.x – Universal Aggregation Configuration

Interfaces

16 x DS1E1
6 x DS1/E1 + 4 x DS3/E3 + 4 x OC3/12 / STM1/4 or 1 x OC48/STM16
4 Core NFV compute FRU
8 Core NFV compute FRU

Ethernet

Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) including Ingress Metering/Egress shaping
IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridging (Q-in-Q) VLAN full S-VLAN range
IEEE 802.1D MAC Bridges
IEEE 802.1p Class of Service (CoS) prioritization IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T via copper SFP
IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
IEEE 802.3u Fast Ethernet
IEEE 802.3z Gigabit Ethernet
IEEE 802.3-2008 10-Gigbit Ethernet
Jumbo frames to 9216 bytes
Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling
Link Aggregation (LAG): Active/Active; Active/Standby
MEF 10.2 Egress Bandwidth Shaping per EVC per CoS
MEF 10.3 Excess/Uncoupled Bandwidth Sharing (Token Cascading)
MEF 10.3/35.1 Performance Monitoring KPIs
MSTP/RSTP
Multi-chassis LAG (MC-LAG) active/standby
Per-VLAN MAC Learning Control
Private Forwarding Groups
VLAN tunneling (Q-in-Q) for Transparent LAN Services (TLS)

MEF 3.0 Certified

E-LAN: EP-LAN, EVP-LAN
E-LINE: EPL, EVPL
E-Tree: EP-Tree, EVP-Tree

Carrier Ethernet OAM

Dying Gasp with Syslog and SNMP Traps EVC Ping (IPv4)
Generation and Reflection at 10GbE
IEEE 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
IEEE 802.1ag Connectivity Fault Management (CFM)
IEEE 802.3ah EFM Link-fault OAM
ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet Service Activation Test Methodology
ITU-T Y.1731 Performance Monitoring (SLM;DM)
Y.1731 Client Signal Fail (CSF)
RFC2544 Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Device
RFC5618 TWAMP Responder and Receiver TWAMP Sender

Synchronization

External Timing Interfaces:
- BITS in or out (1.544Mb/s, 2.048MHz and 2 Mb/s) •
- Frequency in or out (1.544MHz, 2.048MHz, and 10MHz) •
- 1pps and ToD in or out
GR-1244
ITU-T G.781
ITU-T G.813 ITU-T G.824/G.823
ITU-T G.8262/G.8264 EEC option1 and option2
ITU-T G.8262 Synchronous Ethernet
Line Timing Interfaces:
- 1GbE/10GbE In and Out
Stratum 3E oscillator

Networking Protocols

Alarm Indication Signaling (AIS) with Link Down Indication (LDI) and Remote Defect Indication (RDI)
Automatic Pseudowire Reversion Control
DHCPv4 Relay Agent with Option 82
G.8032/IGMP interworking
IGMPv3 with SSM IGMP over MPLS-TP
ITU-T G.8032 v1, v2, v3 Ethernet Ring Protection Switching
Layer 2 Control Frame Tunneling over MPLS Virtual Circuits
LSP Dynamic provisioning 1:1 Tunnel
MPLS Label Switch Path (LSP) Tunnel Groups
MPLS Label Switch Path (LSP) Tunnel
MPLS Multi-Segment Pseudo wires
MPLS Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS)
OSPF/IS-IS for Dynamic MPLS-TP Control Plane
RFC2205 RSVP IS-IS L1/L2
RFC3031 MPLS architecture
RFC3209 RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP
RFC3630 OSPF-T
RFC4447 Pseudo wire Setup & Maintenance using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
RFC4448 Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet over MPLS Networks (PW over MPLS)
RFC4664 Framework of L2VPN (VPLS/VPWS)
RFC4665 Service Requirement of L2 VPN
RFC4762 VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service) and Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS)
RFC5654 MPLS-Transport Profile (TP) LSP Static provisioning, LSP Dynamic provisioning, 1:1 Tunnel protection
RFC5884 LSP Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) via GAL/G-Ach channels
RFC6215 MPLS Transport Profile User-toNetwork and Network-to-Network Interfaces
RFC6426 MPLS On-demand Connectivity Verification and Route Tracing
RFC6428 LSP and PW Connectivity
Verification and Trace Route Static ARP and MAC Destination Address Resolution
VCCV (Virtual Circuit Continuity Check) Ping and Trace Route VCCV BFD based PW Pseudo wire Switchover Multicast

Network Management

Alarm Management & Monitoring Configuration
Comprehensive Management via CLI Event and Alarm Notification/Generation
IPv4 & IPv6 Management Support
Integrated Firewall
Local Console Port
Per-VLAN Statistics Port State Mirroring
RADIUS Client and RADIUS Authentication
Remote Auto configuration via TFTP, SFTP
Remote Link Loss Forwarding (RLLF)
RFC959 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
RFC1035 DNS Client
RFC1213 SNMP MIB II RFC1350 Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
RFC1493 Bridge MIB
RFC1573 MIB II Interfaces
RFC1643 Ethernet-like Interfacing MIB
RFC1757 RMON MIB-including persistent configuration
RFC2021 RMON II and RMON Statistics
RFC2131 DHCP Client
RFC3877 Alarm MIB
RFC4291 IPv6 addressing (for management plane)
RFC4443 ICMPv6
RFC4862 Stateless address auto-configuration
RFC5905 NTP Client
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Secure Shell (SSHv2)
SNMP v1/v2c/v3
SNMP v3 authentication and Message Encryption
Software upgrade via FTP, SFTP
Syslog Accounting
TACACS + AAA
Telnet Server
Virtual Link Loss Indication (VLLI)
Zero Touch Provisioning

+ Technical Information (Common)

Interfaces

Fixed Ethernet Ports:
- 2 x 100M/1GbE SFP
- 6 x 1GbE/10GbE SFP+
- 1 x Module Slot
Other:
- 1 x 10//100/1000M RJ-45 mgmt. port
- 1 x serial console (RJ-45, EIA-561)
- 1 x USB
- 1 x RJ45 BITS
- 1 x Mini coax frequency in or out
- 1 x Mini coax 1 PPS in or out
- 1 x coax GNSS antenna

Agency Approvals

Australia RCM (Australia/New Zealand)
CE mark (EU)
EMC Directive (2014/30/EU)
ETSI 300 019 Class 1.2, 2.2, 3.2
GR-1089 Issue 6 – NEBS Level 3, Zone 4 Earthquake GR-63-CORE, Issue 4 – NEBS Level 3
LVD Directive (2006/95/EC)
NOM (Mexico)
NRTL (NA)
RoHS2 Directive (2011/65/EU)
VCCI (Japan)

Service Security

Access Control Lists (ACLs) on data ports and management communication
Broadcast Containment
Egress Port Restriction
Hardware-based DOS Attack Prevention
Layer 2, 3, 4 Protocol Filtering
User Access Rights Local user authorization

Physical Characteristics

Dimensions:
17.5" (W) x 9.9"(D) x 1.75"(H);
444mm (W) x 252mm (D) x 44mm (H)

Standards Compliance

Emissions:
- CISPR 22 Class A
- CISPR 32 Class A
- EN 300 386
- EN 55032
- FCC Part 15 Class A
- GR-1089 Issue 6
- Industry Canada ICES-003 Class A
- VCCI Class A
Environmental:
- RoHS2 Directive (2011/65/EU)
- WEEE 2002/96/EC
Operating Temperature:
- -40 F to + 149 F (-40 C to + 65C)
Storage Temperature:
- -40 F to + 158 F (-40 C to + 70C)
Immunity (EMC):
- GR-1089 Issue 6
- CISPR 24
- EN 300 386
- EN 55024
Power:
- ETSI EN 300 132-2
- ETSI EN 300 132-3
Safety:
- ANSI/UL 60950-1 2nd edition 2007
- CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1-07
- EN 60950-1
- IEC 60825-1 2nd edition (2007)
- IEC 60825-2 3rd edition (2004)