Summary

Amendment 1 to Recommendation ITU-T G.988 (2010) continues the maintenance and evolution of OMCI as defined in Recommendation ITU-T G.988 (2010). In addition, it defines TC-layer PM for XG-PON in accordance with ITU-T G.987.3, extends OMCI to cover wider multicast use cases, extends the support of IPv6 and defines optional extensions to OMCI messages, in particular those related to testing. Finally, ITU-T G.988 is adapted to support IEEE 802.3 PON access networks.