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Link Management Protocol (LMP) extensions for G.709 Optical Transport Networks
draft-cecczhang-ccamp-gmpls-g709v3-lmp-00

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Authors Fatai Zhang , Xian Zhang , Daniele Ceccarelli , Diego Caviglia , Guoying Zhang , Dieter Beller , Sergio Belotti
Last updated 2013-04-15 (Latest revision 2012-10-12)
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Abstract

Recent progress of the Optical Transport Network (OTN) has introduced new signal types (i.e., ODU0, ODU4, ODU2e and ODUflex) and new Tributary Slot granularity (1.25Gbps). Since equipments deployed prior to recently defined ITU-T recommendations only support 2.5 Gbps Tributary Slot granularity and ODU1, ODU2 and ODU3 containers, the compatibility problem should be considered. In addition, a Higher Order ODU (HO ODU) link may not support all the types of Lower Order ODU (LO ODU) signals defined by the new OTN standard because of the limitation of the devices at the two ends of a link. In these cases, the control plane is required to run the capability discovering functions for the evolutive OTN. This document describes the extensions to the Link Management Protocol (LMP) needed to discover the capability of HO ODU link, including the granularity of Tributary Slot to be used and the LO ODU signal types that the link can support. Moreover, extensions of LMP test messages detailing the OTN technology specific information in order to cover also G.709v3 signal types and containers are also provided.

Authors

Fatai Zhang
Xian Zhang
Daniele Ceccarelli
Diego Caviglia
Guoying Zhang
Dieter Beller
Sergio Belotti

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