Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 3500 User Manual
Optera metro 3500 multiservice platform
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Nortel Networks
OPTera Metro 3500
Multiservice Platform
Release 12.1 Planning and Ordering
Guide—Part 1 of 2
Standard Issue 1 April 2004
Operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) features
See Part 2 for the following...
Technical specifications
Engineering rules
Cable and connector details
Shelf mounting guidelines
Ordering information
Terms and conditions
Glossary
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Contents
- About this document
- Overview
- Operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) features
- Gigabit Ethernet Drop and Continue
- Alarm provisioning
- Bandwidth management
- BLSR networks (2-fiber)
- Protection
- ’Infinite wait-to-restore’ parameter
- BLSR Line Protection Oscillation Control
- BLSR single span fiber cut scenario
- BLSR nodal / multi-span failure scenario (involves squelching)
- BLSR configurations
- BLSR configuration and connection audit
- Traffic flow over OC-48 BLSR
- Traffic flow over OC-192 BLSR
- Provisioning rules
- OAM supported on BLSR
- Channelized DS3 service (DS3VTx12 mapper)
- Common Language Location Identifier
- Connection ID
- Consolidated load
- Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)
- Facility attributes
- Loopbacks
- Network surveillance
- OPTera Packet Edge System (Resilient Packet Ring) - Ethernet
- Optical Ethernet-Private Line (OE-PL) services using 10/100 Ethernet
- Optical Ethernet-Private Line (OE-PL) service using 2x1000 SX/LX OPE circuit packs
- Optical Ethernet - Private Line (OE-PL) and Storage applications
- Optical interoperability of OPTera Metro 3500
- Performance monitoring
- Site Manager support
- Preside Applications Platform and Multiservice MOA support
- Protection switching
- Security and administration
- Local account user authentication
- Local ‘challenge-response’ user authentication
- Centralized Security Administration (CSA)
- Centralized user administration and authentication through RADIUS
- SecurID support
- Secure storage of authentication data
- Saving and restoring provisioning data
- Local TL1 of provisioning data
- Save and restore of shelf processor or span of control data to a remote management entity through...
- Application of TL1 commands from a TL1 script file
- Security levels
- Third Level 5 User Support/Increased NPx SOC visibility to 16 NEs
- System identifier (SID)
- Remote login
- Multiple login sessions
- Enhanced Intrusion Detection
- Intrusion attempt handling
- Password management
- Customer managed networks
- Security log audit trail
- General Broadcast tool
- Modifiable Login Banner
- STS Managed DSM
- Support for 12 DSM
- Synchronization
- Internal timing
- External timing
- Line timing
- Timing modes
- Stratum clocks
- Synchronization hierarchy
- Hierarchy violations
- Timing loops
- Building-integrated timing supply (BITS)
- Network element synchronization modes
- Timing sources and timing distribution
- External timing reference input signals to STX and VTX-series circuit packs
- Synchronization-status messages
- User-specified quality levels for timing sources
- BITS output with VTX-series or STX-192 circuit packs
- Userinitiated synchronization switches
- Test Access
- Time of day synchronization
- TL1 Changes to Cross Connect AID parameter
- TL1 event exerciser
- TL1 event / log feature
- Topology enhancements
- VT management option on STX equipped OPTera Metro 3500
- VT management on a UPSR
- VT grooming on a UPSR
- Collocated OPTera Metro 3000 NE and dedicated STS at each site
- Collocated OPTera Metro 3000 NE and shared VT-managed STS
- UPSR planning guidelines summary
- General guidelines
- Physical subtending rings
- Virtual rings across the STS-managed OPTera Metro 3500 backbone network
- VT grooming at an STS-managed OPTera Metro 3500 site
- Hardware feature descriptions
- Extended Reach (ZX) Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP)
- OPTera Metro 3500 Shelf and the OPTera Metro 3500 Universal Shelf
- Replaceable I/O modules
- Common modules
- OPTera Metro 3500 cooling unit assembly and cooling unit fan modules
- Universal cooling unit assembly and cooling unit fan modules for extended temperature applications
- 20 A (Universal) power module
- OPTera Metro 3000 breaker interface panel (BIP)
- OPTera Metro 3500 BIP (European deployment)
- STX-192 circuit pack
- VTX-48 circuit pack
- VTX-48e circuit pack
- Extended shelf processor (SPx)
- Extended network processor (NPx)
- ILAN interface
- OC-192 optical interface circuit pack
- OC-192 DWDM G.709 FEC optical interface circuit pack
- OC-48 optical interface circuit pack
- OC-48 STS optical interface circuit pack
- OC-48 DWDM circuit pack
- OC-12 optical interface circuit pack
- OC12x4 STS IR optical interface circuit pack
- OC3 optical interface circuit pack
- OC-3x4 optical interface circuit pack
- EC-1x3 circuit pack
- EC-1x12 circuit pack
- DS1 mapper
- DS3x3 mapper
- DS3x12 / DS3x12e mapper
- DS3VTx12 mapper
- 2x100BT-P2P circuit pack
- OPTera Packet Edge System 4x100BT circuit pack
- OPTera Packet Edge System 4x100FX circuit pack
- OPTera Packet Edge System 2xGigE (2x1000SX, 2x1000LX) circuit pack
- 2xGigabit Ethernet/Fibre Channel - Point-to-Point circuit pack
- Protection switch controller (PSC)
- Protection switch extender (PSX)
- OMX + Fiber Manager 4CH
- Enhanced OMX + Fiber Manager 4CH
- OMX shelf (not required with OMX + Fiber Manager 4CH)
- Fiber Manager (not required with OMX + Fiber Manager 4CH)
- DS1 service module (DSM) shelf
- DSM DS1x84 termination module (TM)