CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References
 3     Definitions
 4     Abbreviations 
 5     Overview 
        5.1     Call and connection control         
        5.2     Interaction between control, transport and management planes    
 6     Transport resources and their organization        
        6.1     Transport entities 
        6.2     Routing areas       
        6.3     Topology and discovery   
        6.4     Domains
        6.5     Multi-layer aspects          
        6.6     Interlayer client support   
        6.7     Calls supported by calls at same layer     
 7     Control plane architecture          
        7.1     Notation
        7.2     Policy and federations      
        7.3     Architectural components 
        7.4     Protocol controller (PC) components       
 8     Reference points
        8.1     UNI 
        8.2     I-NNI     
        8.3     E-NNI   
        8.4     User Architecture 
        8.5     Inter-layer NCC interactions        
 9     Network management of control plane entities   
10     Identifiers
       10.1     Name spaces       
       10.2     Names and addresses      
       10.3     Relationships between identifiers           
11     Connection availability enhancement techniques          
       11.1     Protection
       11.2     Restoration          
12     Resilience
       12.1     Principles of control and transport plane interactions     
       12.2     Principles of protocol controller communication
       12.3     Control and management plane interactions        
Annex A – Connection services    
Appendix I – ASON layer networks    
Appendix II – Illustrative examples of implementations    
Appendix III – Resilience relationships    
      III.1     Control plane – DCN relationships          
      III.2     Control plane – Transport plane relationships     
      III.3     Control plane – Management plane relationships 
      III.4     Intra-control plane relationships   
Appendix IV Example of layered call control    
Appendix V Component interactions for connection set-up    
        V.1     Hierarchical routing        
        V.2     Source and step-by-step routing  
        V.3     Connection protection      
        V.4     Restoration – Hard Re-routing – Intra-domain – Hierarchical method    
        V.5     Restoration – Soft Re-routing – Intra-domain – Source method  
        V.6     Restoration – Revertive Re-routing – Intra-domain – Source method     
        V.7     Source Routing using Routing Query interface    
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