Table of Contents

 1     Scope            
 2     References  
 3     Definitions   
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms    
 5     Overview     
        5.1     Physical layer management mechanisms     
 6     OAM communications channel
        6.1     Requirements on the physical media dependent (PMD) layer for the bit-oriented clear embedded operations channel (EOC)    
        6.2     Requirements on the PMD layer for the message-oriented clear EOC  
        6.3     Data link layer   
        6.4     The SNMP protocol          
 7     Management information base (MIB) elements   
        7.1     Failures              
        7.2     Performance monitoring functions              
        7.3     Configuration functions  
        7.4     Inventory information     
        7.5     Test, diagnostic and status parameters        
        7.6     Network management elements partitioning             
Appendix I – Processing examples    
        I.1                    Illustration of transmitter processing              
        I.2                    Illustration of receiver processing   
Appendix II – Downstream power back-off    
       II.1     Introduction       
       II.2     Description of the DPBO method   
Bibliography