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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide
November 2001
Chapter9 Ethernet Operation
Ethernet Circuit Configurations
9.3.2 Shared Packet Ring Ethernet Circuits
This section provides steps for creating a shared packet ring (Figure9-9). Your network architecture may
differ from the example.
Figure9-9 A shared packet ring Ethernet circuit

Procedure: Provision a Shared Packet Ring

Step 1 Display CTC for one of the ONS 15454 Ethernet circuit endpoi nts.
Step 2 Double-click one of the Ethernet cards that will carr y the c ircu it.
Step 3 Click the Provisioning > Card tabs.
Step 4 Under Card Mode, verify that Multi-card EtherSwitch Group is checked.
Step 5 If Multi-card EtherSwitch Group is not checked, check it and click Apply.
Step 6 Display the node view.
Step 7 Repeat Steps 2 – 6 for all other Ethernet cards in the ONS 15454 that will carry the shared packet ring.
Step 8 Navigate to the other ONS 15454 endpoint.
Step 9 Repeat Steps 2 – 7.
Step 10 Click the Circuits tab and click Create.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Attributes) dialog box opens.
Step 11 In the Name field, type a name for the circuit.
Step 12 From the Type pull-down menu, choose STS. The VT and VT Tunnel types do not apply to Ethernet
circuits.
Step 13 From the Size pull-down menu, choose the size of the circuit.
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