Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere          
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation              
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms
 5     Conventions             
 6     Introduction and applications            
 7     Structure and processes       
        7.1     FlexO-x-SC-m signal structure  
        7.2     Processing and information flow           
 8     FlexO frame              
 9     Alignment markers, PAD and FlexO overhead
10     Mapping of OTUCn signal into n FlexO instances       
11     m×100G FlexO with staircase FEC interface group (FlexO-1-SC-m)      
       11.1     FlexO-1-SC frame structure     
       11.2     FlexO-1-SC bit rate and frame periods 
       11.3     FlexO-1-SC overhead 
       11.4     Staircase forward error correction (SC FEC)      
       11.5     FlexO-1-SC scrambling             
       11.6     FOIC1.k-SC    
Annex A – Forward error correction using 512 × 510 staircase codes    
Annex B – Adaptation of 512 × 510 staircase codes to 100G FlexO-1-SC FEC    
        B.1     100G FlexO-1-SC bit and SC FEC specific base blocks mapping relationship            
        B.2     100G FlexO-1-SC transmitter and receiver SC FEC processing      
Appendix I – Example applications    
Bibliography