Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere       
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation           
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Overview  
        5.1     Physical layer management mechanisms         
 6     Operations, administration and maintenance communications channel         
        6.1     Requirements on the physical media dependent layer for the bit-oriented clear embedded operations channel    
        6.2     Requirements on the physical media dependent layer for the message-oriented clear embedded operations channel    
        6.3     Data link layer              
        6.4     The simple network management protocol protocol   
 8     Management information base elements   
        7.1     Failures           
        7.2     Performance monitoring functions     
        7.3     Configuration functions           
        7.4     Inventory information              
        7.5     Test, diagnostic and status parameters             
        7.6     Network management elements partitioning 
Appendix I – Processing examples    
        I.1     Illustration of transmitter processing  
        I.2     Illustration of receiver processing         
Appendix II – Downstream power back-off    
       II.1     Introduction  
       II.2     Description of the downstream power back-off method            
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