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Chapter 12 Monitoring Carrier Ethernet Services
Working with Pseudowires
Figure 12-62 Pseudowire Overlay in Prime Network Vision
Step 5 To hide and view the overlay, click Hide Overlay/Show Overlay in the toolbar. The button toggles
depending on whether the overlay is currently displayed or hidden.
Step 6 To remove the overlay, choose Choose Overlay Type > None.
Monitoring the Pseudowire Headend
A pseudowire (PW) is an emulation of a point-to-point conn ec ti on over a p ack et-s wit chi ng ne twork
(PSN). It operates over a uniform packet-based access/aggregation network. The composite L2 AC and
the PW segment together form a point-to-point virtual CE-PE link that functions like a traditional CE-PE
link technology.
Figure 12-63 displays a typical pseudowrie deployment over core network and Figure 12-64 displa ys a
pseduowire deployment over access network.