ITU-T Recommendations

Recommendation ITU-T G.798 specifies both the components and the methodology that should be used in order to specify the optical transport network (OTN) functionality of network elements; it does not specify individual optical transport network equipment.

Amendment 1 contains text modifications and additions for:

– moving the ODUkP to Ethernet MAC layer and Ethernet Reconciliation sublayer adaptation functions from ITU-T G.8021 to ITU-T G.798.

– supporting the adaptation of ODUkP to Ethernet Coding sublayer for 25 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Ethernet signals.

– alignment with ITU-T G.8023.

– replacing Appendix VIII to align with ITU-T G.872 and ITU-T G.873.1

Amendment 2 contains text modifications and additions for:

– OTSi to OTU4 adaptation function with SC FEC.

– OTSi to FlexO-1-SC adaptation function.

– alignment with ITU-T G.709.1.