Nortel Networks 3500, NTRN10AN manual Optical Ethernet Private Line OE-PL and Storage applications

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For more details, see the

•OPTera Packet Edge System Planning Guide, NTRN10YK

•OPTera Packet Edge System User Guide, NTN465YG

Optical Ethernet - Private Line (OE-PL) and Storage applications

OPTera Metro 3500 supports efficient point-to-point Ethernet services and Fibre Channel Storage Area Network Extension services with the introduction of a new 2xGigabit Ethernet/Fibre Channel- Point-to-Point (2xGigE/FC-P2P) circuit pack and through the Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) and Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) standards.

Note: For information on GFP and VCAT, please refer to Generic Framing Procedure and Virtual Concatenation support on page 2-99.

2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack

The 2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack provides cost-efficient and flexible transport of “leased line” type services across an OPTera Metro 3500 and/or SONET network. The 2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack also provides 2 independent LAN ports allowing for transport of Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre Channel signals across a SONET network where the traffic can be groomed, switched and monitored by the network.

The 2xGigE/FC-P2P circuit pack circuit pack supports the following features:

•2 LAN ports independently configurable as Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre Channel

—each LAN port can be configured to Gigabit Ethernet, or

—each LAN port can be configured to Fibre Channel (FC100)/FICON, or

—one LAN port configured Gigabit Ethernet and the other to Fibre Channel (FC100)/FICON

•Ethernet Services - dedicated private point-to-point layer 1 transport

•Fibre Channel Services - dedicated private point-to-point layer 1 transparent transport (full-rate or sub-rate extended reach)

•Network connectivity

—SONET contiguous (STS-1, STS-3c, STS-12c and STS24c)

—Virtual concatenation (STS-1-nv, n = 1 through 21 or STS-3c-nv, n = 1 through 7)

•Generic Framing Procedure - Frames (GFP-F) of Ethernet frames into

SONET

•Generic Framing Procedure - Transparent (GFP-T) encapsulation of Fibre Channel frames into SONET

•Network protection using UPSR, BLSR, and 1+1 linear

Planning and Ordering Guide—Part 1 of 2 NTRN10AN Rel 12.1 Standard Iss 1 Apr 2004