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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