The Alcatel-Lucent 1655 AMU obtains fault-management and performance information by monitoring the path overhead of each virtual container (VC). Alarm information is filtered and displayed locally, then transmitted to the management-center database. When equipped with an Alcatel-Lucent TransLAN Card, the Alcatel-Lucent 1655 AMU also stores Ethernet-specific performance information.
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