Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 3500 - Manual (Page 111)

Operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) features 2-73
Planning and Ordering Guide—Part 1 of 2 NTRN10AN Rel 12.1 Standard Iss 1 Apr 2004
For more details, see the
• OPTera Packet Edge System Planning Guide, NTRN10YK
• OPTera Packet Edge System User Guide, NTN465YG
Optical Ethernet - Private Line (OE-PL) and Storage applications
OPTera Metro 3500 supports efficient point-to-point Ethernet services and
Fibre Channel Storage Area Network Extension services with the introduction
of a new 2xGigabit Ethernet/Fibre Channel- Point-to-Point (2xGigE/FC-P2P)
circuit pack and through the Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual
Concatenation (VCAT) standards.
Note: For information on GFP and VCAT, please refer to Generic Framing
Procedure and Virtual Concatenation support on page 2-99 .
2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack
The 2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack provides cost-efficient and flexible transport
of “leased line” type services across an OPTera Metro 3500 and/or SONET
network. The 2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack also provides 2 independent LAN
ports allowing for transport of Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre Channel signals
across a SONET network where the traffic can be groomed, switched and
monitored by the network.
The 2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack circuit pack supports the following features:
• 2 LAN ports independently configurable as Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre
Channel
— each LAN port can be configured to Gigabit Ethernet, or
— each LAN port can be configured to Fibre Channel (FC100)/FICON, or
— one LAN port configured Gigabit Ethernet and the other to Fibre
Channel (FC100)/FICON
• Ethernet Services - dedicated private point-to-point layer 1 transport
• Fibre Channel Services - dedicated private point-to-point layer 1
transparent transport (full-rate or sub-rate extended reach)
• Network connectivity
— SONET contiguous (STS-1, STS-3c, STS-12c and STS24c)
— Virtual concatenation (STS-1-nv, n = 1 through 21 or STS-3c-nv, n = 1
through 7)
• Generic Framing Procedure - Frames (GFP-F) of Ethernet frames into
SONET
• Generic Framing Procedure - Transparent (GFP-T) encapsulation of Fibre
Channel frames into SONET
• Network protection using UPSR, BLSR, and 1+1 linear