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     FlexO-x-DSH-m signal structure            
        7.3     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   
12     200G FlexO with staircase FEC frame structure (FlexO-2-SC)              
       12.1     FlexO-2-SC frame structure  
       12.2     FlexO-2-SC bit rate and frame periods              
       12.3     FlexO-2-SC overhead
       12.4     Staircase forward error correction (SC FEC)    
13     400G FlexO with staircase FEC frame structure (FlexO-4-SC-m)        
       13.1     FlexO-4-SC frame structure  
       13.2     FlexO-4-SC bit rate and frame periods              
       13.3     FlexO-4-SC overhead
       13.4     Staircase forward error correction (SC FEC)    
14     FlexO-x-D<fec>     
       14.1     FlexO-x-D<fec> frame and multi-frame structures      
       14.2     FlexO-x-D<fec> Overhead     
15     FlexO-x-DSH           
       15.1     FlexO-x-DSH multi-frame and super-frame structures
       15.2     FlexO-x-DSH bit rates and frame periods         
       15.3     Overhead     
       15.4     Mapping of FlexO-x-SC client into FlexO-x-DSH payload           
       15.5     FOICx.k-DSH
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  
Annex C – Adaptation of 512 × 510 staircase codes to 200G|400G FlexO-x-SC FEC    
        C.1     200G|400G FlexO-x-SC bit and SC FEC specific base blocks mapping relationship            
        C.2     200G|400G FlexO-x-SC transmitter and receiver SC FEC processing      
Annex D – Forward error correction using 10976 × 128 Hamming soft decision codes    
        D.1     Forward error correction code             
Appendix I – Example applications    
Appendix II – Error correction capability of the (128,119) Hamming soft decision code combined with the 512 × 510 staircase code    
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