Summary

Recommendation ITU‑T G.8031/Y.1342 describes the specifics of linear protection switching for Ethernet virtual local area network (VLAN) signals. Included are details pertaining to ETH linear protection characteristics, architectures and the automatic protection switching (APS) protocol. The protection scheme considered in this Recommendation is:

–           VLAN‑based Ethernet subnetwork connection linear protection with sublayer monitoring.