Provisioning Optical Cards; Modifying Transmission Quality; Provision Line Transmission Settings For Oc-N Cards; Table 7-5 Oc-N Card Line Settings On The Provisioning > Line Tab - Cisco ONS 15327 User Documentation

Chapter 7 Card Provisioning

7.3 Provisioning Optical Cards

This section explains how to modify transmission quality by provisioning line and threshold settings for
OC-N cards.

7.3.1 Modifying Transmission Quality

The OC-3, OC-12 and OC-48 cards are pre-provisioned with settings that you can modify to manage
transmission quality. Depending on the optical card, you can specify thresholds for near and far end
nodes at the Line, Section, and Path levels for 15-minute and one day intervals.
Procedure: Provision Line Transmission Settings for OC-N Cards
Display the OC-N card in CTC card view.
Step 1
Step 2 Click the Provisioning > Line tabs.
Modify the settings shown in
Step 3
Table 7-5
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Port #
Port Name
SF BER Level
SD BER Level Sets the signal degrade bit error rate
Provides
Synch
Enable Synch
Messages
Send Do Not
Use
June 2002
Table 7-5.
OC-N Card Line Settings on the Provisioning > Line Tab
Description
Port number
Name of the OC-N port
Sets the signal fail bit error rate
If checked, the card is provisioned as a network
element timing reference on the Provisioning >
Timing tabs
Enables synchronization status messages (S1 byte),
which allow the node to choose the best timing
source
When checked, sends a DUS (do not use) message on
the S1 byte
Provisioning Optical Cards
Options
1 (OC-12, OC-48)
•
1-4 (OC-3)
•
32 alpha-numeric characters
• 1E-3
1E-4 (default)
•
1E-5
•
1E-5
•
1E-6
•
1E-7 (default)
•
• 1E-8
• 1E-9
Read-only
Yes (checked)
•
No (unchecked)
•
Yes (checked, default)
•
• No (unchecked)
• Yes (checked)
No (unchecked; default)
•
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