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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide
November 2001
Chapter7 Card Provisioning
Provisioning Optical Cards
Step 6 Repeat Steps 4 – 5 for each subtab that has parameters you want to provision.
7.3 Provisioning Optical Cards
This section explains how to modify transmission quality by provisioning line and threshold settings for
OC-N cards and how to provision OC-N cards for SDH.

7.3.1 Modifying Transmission Quality

The OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 cards are pre-provisioned with settings th at you can mo dify to
manage transmission quality. Depending on the optical card, you can specify threshold s for near and far
end nodes at the Line, Section, and Path levels for 15-minute and one day intervals.

Procedure: Provision Line Transmission Settings for OC-N Cards

Step 1 Display the OC-N card in CTC card view.
Step 2 Click the Provisioning > Line tabs.
Step 3 Modify the settings shown in Tab le 7-7.
Table7-7 OC-N Card Line Settings on the Provisioning > Line Tab
Heading Description Options
# Port number •1 (OC-12, OC-48,
OC-192)
•1-4 (OC-3)
SF BER Level Sets the signal fail bit error rate •1E-3
•1E-4 (default)
•1E-5
SD BER Level Sets the signal degrade bit error rate •1E-5
•1E-6
•1E-7 (default)
•1E-8
•1E-9
Provides
Synch If checked, the card is provisioned as a network
element timing reference on the Provisioning >
Timing tabs
Read-only
•Yes (checked)
•No (unchecked)
Enable Synch
Messages Enables synchronization status messages (S1 byte),
which allow the node to choose the best timing
source
•Yes (checked, default)
•No (unchecked)