Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere        
 4     Abbreviations          
 5     Conventions             
 6     Individual and group protection concept      
 7     Architecture types 
        7.1     1+1 protection architecture     
        7.2     1:n protection architecture      
        7.3     m:n protection architecture    
        7.4     (1:1)n protection architecture 
 8     Switching types       
 9     Operation types      
10     Protocol types        
11     Protection classes and subclasses  
       11.1     Trail protection            
       11.2     SNC protection            
       11.3     Subnetwork connection group protection       
12     Survivability of inverse multiplexed link connections             
       12.1     SIM functional model
13     Protection switching performance
14     Hold-off timer        
15     Wait-to-restore timer         
16     Automatic protection switching signal          
17     Non-pre-emptible unprotected traffic        
18     Extra traffic (protection) transport entity overhead/OAM  
19     External commands             
       19.1     External commands for CL-SNC            
       19.2     External commands for ACL-SNC         
20     Protection switching process states              
21     Priority       
22     SF and SD trigger conditions             
       22.1     Overview of SF conditions      
       22.2     Overview of SD conditions     
23     Working and protection allocation 
24     APS protocol           
       24.1     1-phase          
       24.2     2-phase          
       24.3     3-phase          
Appendix I – Implementation of hold-off timer    
Appendix II – Automatic conditions (SF, SD) in group SNC protection    
Appendix III – Implementation observations    
      III.1     Analysis            
Appendix IV – An example of (1:1)n protection    
Appendix V – Examples of survivability of inverse multiplexed trails    
        V.1     Survivability offered by LCAS 
Appendix VI – Solution for SD triggered protection in PTN    
Appendix VII – Solution for service protection in DBN