CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References 
 3     Definitions  
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere    
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation       
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms        
 5     Methodology    
 6     Supervision
        6.1     Alarm reporting control      
        6.2     Defects   
        6.3     Consequent actions
        6.4     Defect correlations 
        6.5     Performance filters 
 7     Information flow across reference points   
 8     Generic processes           
        8.1     Scrambling processes        
        8.2     Alignment processes          
        8.3     Signal quality supervision    
        8.4     BIP correction       
        8.5     OTUk forward error correction (FEC) processing  
        8.6     Trail trace identifier (TTI) processing          
        8.7     Payload structure indication (PSI) acceptance processes    
        8.8     Status information (STAT) acceptance process      
        8.9     Generic AIS generation and detection        
       8.10     Generic layer fault processing        
       8.11     Optical signal processing   
 9     Optical transmission section (OTS) layer functions
        9.1     Connection functions (N/A)           
        9.2     Termination functions         
        9.3     Adaptation functions          
10     Optical multiplex section (OMS) layer functions   
       10.1     Connection functions (N/A)          
       10.2     Termination functions        
       10.3     Adaptation functions         
       10.4     Sub-layer functions           
11     Optical physical section (OPS) layer functions     
       11.1     Connection functions (N/A)          
       11.2     Termination functions        
       11.3     Adaptation functions         
12     OCh (layer) functions      
       12.1     Connection functions         
       12.2     Termination functions        
       12.3     Adaptation functions         
       12.4     Layer functions (N/A)       
13     OTU (layer) functions     
       13.1     Connection functions (N/A)          
       13.2     Termination functions        
       13.3     Adaptation functions         
       13.4     Sub-layer functions (N/A) 
14     ODU (layer) functions     
       14.1     Connection functions         
       14.2     Termination functions        
       14.3     Adaptation functions         
       14.4     COMMS functions           
       14.5     Sub-layer functions           
       14.6     Virtual concatenation functions      
Annex A – Optical section (OSx) and constant bit rate (CBRx) layer functions    
Introduction    
        A.1     Connection functions (N/A)           
        A.2     Termination functions        
        A.3     Adaptation functions         
Appendix I – Applications and functional diagrams    
        I.1        Transparent CBRx tributary interface port with optional SDH RS non-intrusive monitor on OTN equipment    
        I.2        OTM-0.m tributary interface port on OTN equipment      
        I.3        Selectable CBRx/OTM-0.m tributary interface port on OTN equipment   
        I.4        OTM-0.m interface ports on non-OTN equipment           
        I.5        OTM-n.m interface port with 3-R regeneration functionality for an ODUk connection function    
Appendix II – TCM applications    
Appendix III – Performance of processes    
      III.1     Introduction           
      III.2     OTUk frame alignment process      
      III.3     STAT acceptance process and related defect detection (ODUkP/TdAIS, ODUkP/TdOCI, ODUkP/TdLCK, ODUkTdLTC, ODUkTdIAE)    
      III.4     OTUkdIAE, OTUkdBDI, ODUkP/TdBDI detection         
      III.5     PT acceptance process and ODUkPdPLM detection         
      III.6     Generic AIS and OTUk AIS detection       
      III.7     OTUkdBIAE and ODUkTdBIAE detection process          
Appendix IV – TTI processing examples    
       IV.1     Example 1
       IV.2     Example 2
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