CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References 
 3     Terms and definitions       
 4     Abbreviations   
 5     Methodology    
        5.1     Basic methodology
        5.2     Transmission layer naming  
        5.3     Atomic function naming and diagrammatic conventions        
        5.4     Reference point naming      
        5.5     Reference point information naming
        5.6     Atomic function process allocation 
        5.7     Combination rules  
        5.8     Fault management and performance monitoring naming       
        5.9     Fault management and performance monitoring specification techniques      
 6     Supervision
        6.1     Trail termination point mode and port mode
        6.2     Defect filter
        6.3     Consequent actions
        6.4     Defect correlations 
        6.5     One-second performance monitoring filters 
 7     Information flow (XXX_MI) across the XXX_MP reference points          
 8     Generic processes           
        8.1     Line coding and scrambling processes        
        8.2     Alignment processes          
        8.3     Performance supervision process   
        8.4     BIP correction       
        8.5     GFP processes      
 9     Performance and reliability           
        9.1     Transit delay          
        9.2     Response times      
        9.3     Availability and reliability    
        9.4     Laser safety           
10     Generic equipment functions        
       10.1     LCAS-capable virtual concatenated path layer functions P-Xv-L (X ³ 1)  
Annex A – Assignment and use of signal label, payload type and user payload identifier codes    
        A.1     Experimental code
        A.2     Proprietary codes 
        A.3     Request for standardized codes     
Annex B – P-Xv/P-X-L_A_Sk: Calculation of RI_MST_gen for _LCASActive = true    
Appendix I – Connection matrix examples     
        I.1        Connection matrix example for full connectivity     
        I.2        Connection matrix example for 2-port groups       
        I.3        Connection matrix example for 3-port groups type I         
        I.4        Connection matrix example for 3-port groups type II        
        I.5        Connection matrix example for 4-port groups type I         
        I.6        Connection matrix example for 4-port groups type II        
        I.7        Example of a provisioned connection matrix          
Appendix II – Example of remote indication operation    
       II.1     Remote defect indication (RDI)      
       II.2     Remote error indication (REI)         
Appendix III – Alarm indication signal (AIS)    
Appendix IV – Signal fail (SF) and signal degrade (SD)     
       IV.1     Server signal fail (SSF) signal        
       IV.2     Server signal degrade (aSSD) signal          
       IV.3     Trail signal fail (TSF) signal           
       IV.4     Trail signal degrade (TSD) signal   
Appendix V – Description of error detection code (EDC) terminology N ´ BIP-m    
Appendix VI – Calculations leading to BIP saturation results in Tables 6-4 and 6-5    
       VI.1     Introduction          
       VI.2     Calculations and results     
Appendix VII – Examples for the operation of the processes within LCAS-capable adaptation functions    
      VII.1     Basic configuration           
      VII.2     LCAS-enabled So and Sk functions         
      VII.3     LCAS-enabled So and LCAS-disabled Sk functions        
      VII.4     LCAS-disabled So and LCAS-enabled Sk functions        
      VII.5     Non-virtual-concatenation So and LCAS-capable virtual-concatenation Sk functions         
Appendix VIII – Consequent actions for signals with no AIS/FDI defined    
BIBLIOGRAPHY