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J2 trace – EXFO FTB-8100 Series Transport Blazer for FTB-200 User Manual

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SONET Tabs

SONET/SDH Application

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LOP RX (SONET)

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ERDI-VCD (Enhanced RDI - VT Connectivity Defect): The ERDI-VCD
alarm is declared when bits 5, 6, and 7 of the Z7 byte contain the “110”
pattern, and bit 8 of the V5 byte contain “1”, in five consecutive VT
superframes.

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ERDI-VPD (Enhanced RDI - VT Path Payload Defect): The ERDI-VPD
alarm is declared when bits 5, 6, and 7 of the Z7 byte contain the “010”
pattern, and bit 8 of the V5 byte contain “0”, in five consecutive VT
superframes.

J2 Trace

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Received Message: Displays the J2 value in 16-bytes or 64-bytes
format. The represents the CRC-7 for a 16-bytes format. The
last two bytes of a 64-bytes format,

R

> and

F

>, represent

respectively a carriage return and a line feed.

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Enable TIM-V (Trace Identifier Mismatch - VT): Allows enabling the
Trace Identifier Mismatch for the expected message defined. The
Enable TIM-V check box has to be selected to give access to the
expected trace format and message. When the Enable TIM-V check
box is cleared, the J2 1-byte is available from the LOP OH RX on
page 210.

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Expected Message: Allows entering the message that is expected. J2
value should be ASCII suitable characters. The default message is
EXFO SONET/SDH for 16 bytes and EXFO SONET/SDH Analyzer high
order path trace test message
for 64 bytes. However, with VCAT/LCAS
the default message will be EXFO followed by the VCG number (VCAT
and LCAS) and the SQ (VCAT only) number (for example
EXFO-VCG1-SQ0) for both 16 and 64 bytes formats.

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Expected Format: Allows the selection of the format expected.
Choices are 16 or 64 bytes. The default setting is 16 bytes.