1     Scope           
 2     References 
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere        
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation            
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms              
 5     Methodology           
        5.1     Basic methodology     
        5.2     Transmission layer naming      
        5.3     Atomic function naming and diagrammatic conventions            
        5.4     Reference point naming           
        5.5     Reference point information naming  
        5.6     Atomic function process allocation       
        5.7     Combination rules       
        5.8     Fault management and performance monitoring naming           
        5.9     Fault management and performance monitoring specification
techniques         
 6     Supervision               
        6.1     Trail termination point mode and port mode  
        6.2     Defect filter   
        6.3     Consequent actions   
        6.4     Defect correlations     
        6.5     One-second performance monitoring filters    
 7     Information flow (XXX_MI) across the XXX_MP reference points        
 8     Generic processes  
        8.1     Line coding and scrambling processes 
        8.2     Alignment processes 
        8.3     Performance supervision process        
        8.4     BIP correction               
        8.5     GFP processes              
 9     Performance and reliability 
        9.1     Transit delay  
        9.2     Response times           
        9.3     Availability and reliability         
        9.4     Laser safety   
10     Generic equipment functions          
       10.1     LCAS-capable virtual concatenated path layer functions P-Xv-L
(X ³ 1) 
Annex A – Assignment and use of signal label, payload type and user payload
identifier codes     
        A.1     Experimental code     
        A.2     Proprietary codes       
        A.3     Request for standardized codes            
Annex B – P-Xv/P-X-L_A_Sk: Calculation of RI_MST_gen for _LCASActive = true    
Appendix I – Connection matrix examples     
        I.1                  Connection matrix example for full connectivity 
        I.2                  Connection matrix example for 2-port groups      
        I.3                  Connection matrix example for 3-port groups type I         
        I.4                  Connection matrix example for 3-port groups type
II        
        I.5                  Connection matrix example for 4-port groups type I         
        I.6                  Connection matrix example for 4-port groups type
II        
        I.7                  Example of a provisioned connection matrix        
        I.8                  Connection matrix example for 3-port groups (address
slot group switching)         
        I.9                  Connection matrix example for 4-port groups (address
slot group switching)         
Appendix II – Example of remote indication operation     
       II.1     Remote defect indication (RDI)               
       II.2     Remote error indication (REI)  
Appendix III – Alarm indication signal (AIS)     
Appendix IV – Signal fail (SF) and signal degrade (SD)     
       IV.1     Server signal fail (SSF) signal   
       IV.2     Server signal degrade (SSD) signal        
       IV.3     Trail signal fail (TSF) signal       
       IV.4     Trail signal degrade (TSD) signal            
Appendix V – Description of error detection code (EDC) terminology N ×
BIP-m     
Appendix VI – Calculations leading to BIP saturation results in Tables 6-4 and
6-5     
       VI.1     Introduction  
       VI.2     Calculations and results            
Appendix VII – Examples for the operation of the processes within LCAS-capable
adaptation functions     
      VII.1     Basic configuration     
      VII.2     LCAS-enabled So and Sk functions       
      VII.3     LCAS-enabled So and LCAS-disabled Sk functions          
      VII.4     LCAS-disabled So and LCAS-enabled Sk functions          
      VII.5     Non-virtual-concatenation So and LCAS-capable
virtual-concatenation Sk functions      
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Appendix VIII – Consequent actions for signals with no AIS/FDI defined     
Appendix IX – Types of flow forwarding processes     
Appendix X – SDL descriptions     
Appendix XI – Behaviour of trail termination point mode and
port mode     
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