CONTENTS

 1     Scope
        1.1     Structure of Recommendation
        1.2     References
        1.3     Abbreviations
 2     Management capabilities
        2.1     Categories of management capability
        2.2     Management processes of SDH networks
 3     SDH access point identification
 4     SDH trail management functions
        4.1     Introduction
        4.2     Trail set-up
                  4.2.1     General path set-up control structure
                  4.2.2     Section set-up
        4.3     SDH trail validation
        4.4     SDH trail monitoring
        4.5     SDH trail protection and restoration
Appendix I – Section/path identifier format