beautypg.com

Alarm generation – EXFO IQS-8100 Series Transport Blazer for IQS-600 User Manual

Page 230

background image

SONET Tabs

216

IQS-8100 Series Transport Blazer

Section TX (SONET)

Alarm Generation

Allows Continuous or Burst alarm generation methods.

³

Type

LOF (Loss Of Frame): Generates non-valid framing bytes (A1 and A2).

SEF (Severely Errored Framing): Generates four consecutive errored
framing patterns.

For Continuous method:

³

On/Off button: The On/Off button is used to activate/deactivate the
selected alarm. This setting is disabled (Off) by default. Exceptionally
for continuous SEF alarm, the On/Off button turns Off once the SEF
alarm has been sent.