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[IP-Optical] RE: GMPLS - Hierarchies

  • From: neil.2.harrison@bt.com
  • Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:22:55 -0000

Maarten....hope my last mail helped on this....some additional comment
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> Up to now, tandem connection trails are viewed as being additional
> monitoring overhead/OAM within the same layer network as the main
> signal.
> 
> 	E.g. VC-4 and VC-4 Tandem Connection (TC-4), ATM VP end to end
> 	connection and ATM VP segment, or ODU1 Path and ODU1 Tandem
> 	Connection.
	NH=> Correct.

> But within GMPLS with its "generic LSP" concept, we could view a VT1.5
> as being a tandem connection LSP of the DS1 LSP for connection setup.
> Similarly, we could view MS64, RS64, ODU2, OTU2 and OCh as tandem
> connection LSPs of the VC-4-64c LSP for connection setup.
	NH=> No.  Differentiate user and control planes.  See my last mail I
tried really hard to make this distinction clear.

> I believe that we are already doing something like this in SDH; e.g. the
> set up of a E1 (2 Mbit/s) circuit is realised by means of setup of a
> VC-12 trail.
	NH=> No. The E1 and VC12 are 2 distinct layer networks and both have
their own TT OH.
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