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Chapter 11 ITU-T Y.1731 Performance Monitoring

Information About ITU-T Y.1731 Performance Monitoring

When the sender MEP receives this frame, it records RxTimeStampb, where RxTimeStampb is the timestamp of the time at which the frame containing ETH-DM reply information is received.

Two-way frame delay is calculated as:

Frame delay = (RxTimeStampb-TxTimeStampf)-(TxTimeStampb-RxTimeStampf)

Note Discard the frame delay and frame-delay variation measurements when known network topology changes occur or when continuity and availability faults occur.

For more information on ITU-T Y.1731 performance monitoring, see Configuring IP SLAs

Metro-Ethernet 3.0 (ITU-T Y.1731) Operations in the IP SLAs Configuration Guide.

Frame Loss Ratio

Ethernet Frame Loss Ratio (ETH-LM: FLR), also known as frame loss, measures the availability of synthetic frames in the network. Availability is defined in terms of the ratio of frames lost to frames sent, or Frame Loss Ratio (FLR).

Ethernet Synthetic Loss Measurement (ETH-SLM) is used to collect counter values applicable for ingress and egress synthetic frames where the counters maintain a count of transmitted and received synthetic frames between a pair of MEPs.

ETH-SLM transmits synthetic frames with ETH-SLM information to a peer MEP and similarly receives synthetic frames with ETH-SLM information from the peer MEP. Each MEP performs frame loss measurements, which contribute to unavailable time. A near-end frame loss refers to frame loss associated with ingress data frames. A far-end frame loss refers to frame loss associated with egress data frames. Both near-end and far-end frame loss measurements contribute to near-end severely errored seconds and far-end severely errored seconds, which together contribute to unavailable time. ETH-SLM is measured using SLM and SLR frames.

There are the two methods of frame loss measurement, defined by the ITU-T Y.1731 standard ETH-LM and ETH-SLM. However, the Cisco ASR 901 router supports only single-ended ETH-SLM.

Single-ended ETH-SLM

Each MEP transmits frames with the ETH-SLM request information to its peer MEP and receives frames with ETH-SLR reply information from its peer MEP to carry out synthetic loss measurements.

On-Demand and Concurrent Operations

On-demand IP SLAs SLM operations enable users without configuration access to perform real-time troubleshooting of Ethernet services. There are two operational modes for on-demand operations: direct mode that creates and runs an operation immediately and referenced mode that starts and runs a previously configured operation.

•In the direct mode, a single command can be used to create multiple pseudo operations for a range of class of service (CoS) values to be run, in the background, immediately. A single command in privileged EXEC mode can be used to specify frame size, interval, frequency, and duration for the direct on-demand operation. Direct on-demand operations start and run immediately after the command is issued.

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