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     Methodology           
 6     Supervision               
        6.1     Alarm reporting control             
        6.2     Defects            
        6.3     Consequent actions    
        6.4     Defect correlations     
        6.5     Performance filters     
 7     Information flow across reference points    
 8     Generic processes 
        8.1     Scrambling processes 
        8.2     Alignment processes  
        8.3     Signal quality supervision         
        8.4     BIP correction
        8.5     OTUk forward error correction (FEC) processing            
        8.6     Trail trace identifier (TTI) processing    
        8.7     Payload structure indication (PSI) acceptance processes            
        8.8     Status information (STAT) acceptance process               
        8.9     Generic AIS generation and detection
       8.10     Generic layer fault processing               
       8.11     Optical signal processing          
 9     Optical transmission section (OTS) layer functions   
        9.1     Connection functions 
        9.2     Termination functions               
        9.3     Adaptation functions 
10     Optical multiplex section (OMS) layer functions      
       10.1     Connection functions               
       10.2     Termination functions              
       10.3     Adaptation functions
       10.4     Sub-layer functions   
11     Optical physical section (OPS) layer functions           
       11.1     Connection functions               
       11.2     Termination functions              
       11.3     Adaptation functions
12     OCh (layer) functions          
       12.1     Connection functions               
       12.2     Termination functions              
       12.3     Adaptation functions
       12.4     Layer functions            
13     OTU (layer) functions          
       13.1     Connection functions               
       13.2     Termination functions              
       13.3     Adaptation functions
       13.4     Sub-layer functions   
14     ODU (layer) functions         
       14.1     Connection functions               
       14.2     Termination functions              
       14.3     Adaptation functions
       14.4     COMMS functions      
       14.5     Sub-layer functions   
       14.6     Virtual concatenation functions           
Annex A – Optical section (OSx) and constant bit rate (CBRx) layer functions    
        A.1     Connection functions
        A.2     Termination functions               
        A.3     Adaptation functions 
Appendix I – Applications and functional diagrams    
        I.1                   Transparent CBRx tributary interface port with optional SDH RS non-intrusive monitor on OTN equipment    
        I.2                   OTM-0.m tributary interface port on OTN equipment    
        I.3                   Selectable CBRx/OTM-0.m tributary interface port on OTN equipment  
        I.4                   OTM-0.m interface ports on non-OTN equipment           
        I.5                   OTM-n.m interface port with 3-R regeneration functionality for an ODUk connection function    
Appendix II – TCM applications    
Appendix III – Performance of processes    
      III.1     Introduction   
      III.2     OTUk frame alignment process              
      III.3     STAT acceptance process and related defect detection (ODUkP/TdAIS, ODUkP/TdOCI, ODUkP/TdLCK, ODUkTdLTC, ODUkTdIAE)    
      III.4     OTUkdIAE, OTUkdBDI, ODUkP/TdBDI detection             
      III.5     PT acceptance process and ODUkPdPLM detection      
      III.6     Generic AIS and OTUk AIS detection   
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      III.7     OTUkdBIAE and ODUkTdBIAE detection process            
Appendix IV – TTI processing examples    
       IV.1     Example 1      
       IV.2     Example 2      
Appendix V – Client services of sub ODU1 rate mapping into OTN using higher order virtual container mapping    
        V.1     Description of the application
        V.2     ODUk/Sn compound function               
        V.3     Migration from SDH towards OTN networking               
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