Nortel Networks 3500, NTRN10AN manual Operation, administration, and maintenance OAM features

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Operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) features

This section describes the operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) features of Release 12.1 software.

Table 2-1lists new OAM features in Release 12.1, and Table 2-2lists OAM features Release 12.1 continues to support.

Table 2-1

New or enhanced OAM features in OPTera Metro 3500 Release 12.1

Feature	Page
Gigabit Ethernet Drop and Continue	2-3
Table 2-2
OPTera Metro 3500 OAM features
Feature	Page
Alarm provisioning	2-5
Bandwidth management	2-7
BLSR networks (2-fiber)	2-10
Channelized DS3 service (DS3VTx12 mapper)	2-44
Common Language Location Identifier	2-44
Connection ID	2-45
Consolidated load	2-45
Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)	2-46
Facility attributes	2-54
Loopbacks	2-54
Network surveillance	2-58
OPTera Packet Edge System (Resilient Packet Ring) - Ethernet	2-62

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