Provisioning Optical Cards; Modifying Transmission Quality; Procedure: Provision Line Transmission Settings For Oc-N Cards; Table 7-7 Oc-N Card Line Settings On The Provisioning > Line Tab - Cisco 15454-TCC - Network Processor Card Operation Manual

Provisioning Optical Cards

Repeat Steps 4 – 5 for each subtab that has parameters you want to provision.
Step 6
7.3 Provisioning Optical Cards
This section explains how to modify transmission quality by provisioning line and threshold settings for
OC-N cards and how to provision OC-N cards for SDH.

7.3.1 Modifying Transmission Quality

The OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 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
Click the Provisioning > Line tabs.
Step 2
Modify the settings shown in
Step 3
Table 7-7
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#
SF BER Level
SD BER Level Sets the signal degrade bit error rate
Provides
Synch
Enable Synch
Messages
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Table 7-7.
OC-N Card Line Settings on the Provisioning > Line Tab
Description
Port number
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
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Options
1 (OC-12, OC-48,
•
OC-192)
1-4 (OC-3)
•
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)
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