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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide
November 2001
Chapter9 Ethernet Operation
Ethernet Circuit Configurations
Note If the circuit information is not correct use the Back butt on, then r edo t he pro cedur e wi th the
correct information. Alternately, you can click Finish, then delete the completed circuit and
start the procedure from the beginning.
Step 19 Click Finish.
Step 20 You now need to provision the Ethernet ports and assign ports to VLANs. For port provisioning
instructions, see the “Provision Ethernet Ports” procedure on page9-3. For assigning port s to VLANs,
see the “Provision Ethernet Ports for VLAN Membership” procedure on page 9-24.
Step 21 After assigning the ports to the VLANs, repeat Steps 1 – 19 at the second ONS 15 454 Ether net manua l
cross-connect endpoint.
Note The appropriate STS circuit must exist in the non-ONS 15454 equipment to connect the two STSs
from the ONS 15454 Ethernet manual cross-connect endpoints.
Procedure: Provision a Multicard EtherSwitch Manual Cross-Connect
Step 1 Display CTC for one of the ONS 15454 Ethernet circuit end point s.
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.
If the Multicard-card EtherSwitch Group is not checked, check it and click Apply.
Step 5 Display the node view.
Step 6 Repeat Steps 2 – 5 for any other Ethernet cards in the ONS 15454 that will carry the circuit.
Step 7 Click the Circuits tab and click Create.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Attributes) dialog box opens (Figure 9-18).
Figure9-18 Creating an Ethernet circuit
Step 8 In the Name field, type a name for the circuit.
Step 9 From the Type pull-down menu, choose STS.