Infinera Intelligent Pluggable Manager (IPM) Lab

Infinera's Intelligent Pluggable Manager (IPM) is a GUI-based platform for managing and viewing ICE-X XR transceivers and Network Demarcation Units (NDU) in a network. It allows for the control of the optical transport layer of the transceivers, providing streaming telemetry, bandwidth allocation, and the monitoring of optical power and wavelengths from a host-agnostic, centralized location.

This lab is meant to introduce users to Infinera's Intelligent Pluggable Manager (IPM) and how to navigate through it and its applications.

The User will learn to

• Navigate IPM
• Use IPM to monitor hosts and modules.

.Hardware:

Routers

• 2 x 8201-24H8FH

ICE-X XR Optics

• 2 x XRQDCD400MAE2ZZZ - 400G QSFP-DD ICE-X XR Transceivers
• 2 x XRQDCD100MAE2ZZZ - 100G QSFP-DD ICE-X XR Transceivers
• 1 x XRCFCD200MAE2ZZZ  - 200G CFP2-DCO ICE-X XR Transceiver

Network Demarcation Unit

• 1 x XRND-L1H200AC

VM Server

HP DL360 G10

• 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218 CPU
• 192 GB RAM
• 2 x 960 GB SSD
• 2 x 1.2 TB HDD
• 2 x Intel XXV710

Software:

• Infinera Intelligent Pluggable Manager 1.1.9
• RHEL 8.8
• VMWare ESXI 6.5 Update 3