CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References
 3     Definitions
 4     Abbreviations  
 5     Conventions    
        5.1     Representation of octets  
 
6     Introduction    
 
7     Requirements  
 
8     Protection characteristics           
        8.1     Monitoring methods and conditions        
 
9     Protection group commands      
        9.1     End-to-end commands and states           
        9.2     Local commands  
10     Protection architectures
       10.1     Unidirectional and bidirectional switching         
       10.2     Need for APS communication    
       10.3     Revertive and non-revertive switching   
       10.4     Provisioning mismatches 
       10.5     Protection switching trigger        
       10.6     Protection switching models       
11     APS Protocol 
       11.1     APS format         
       11.2     1-phase APS protocol     
       11.3     Request type       
       11.4     Protection types  
       11.5     Requested signal 
       11.6     Bridged signal     
       11.7     Control of bridge
       11.8     Control of selector          
       11.9     Signal fail of the protection transport entity       
      11.10     Equal priority requests   
      11.11     Command acceptance and retention      
      11.12     Hold-off timer   
      11.13     Wait-to-restore timer      
      11.14     Exercise operation          
      11.15     Failure of protocol defects         
Annex A – State transition tables of protection switching     
        A.1     State transition for 1:1 bidirectional switching with revertive mode     
        A.2     State transition for 1:1 bidirectional switching with non-revertive mode          
        A.3     State transition for 1+1 bidirectional switching with revertive mode    
        A.4     State transition for 1+1 bidirectional switching with non-revertive mode         
        A.5     State transition for 1+1 unidirectional switching with revertive mode  
        A.6     State transition for 1+1 unidirectional switching with non-revertive mode       
Appendix I – Operation example of 1-phase APS protocol     
        I.1       Introduction       
        I.2       Example scenario           
        I.3       APS protocol examples  
Appendix II – Interaction between Ethernet protection switching and STP     
Appendix III – MIPs for protection switching environment     
      III.1     Introduction        
      III.2     Considerations     
      III.3     Configuration examples