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The advent of multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPPs) and multiservice transport platforms (MSTPs) poses new challenges to field engineers deploying these network elements. In the past, the SONET/SDH payload envelope (SPE) and its content were well understood and predictable. Nowadays, however, the SPE has evolved extensively and contains a mix of frame types: GFP-mapped Ethernet, packet-over-SONET/SDH (POS), ATM, etc. EXFO has created a powerful tool that simplifies the field engineers turn-up and troubleshooting activities for SONET/SDH networks, removing the complexity associated with these new multiservice SONET/SDH networks; in essence decoding the content of the signal. This feature, called SmartMode, is available on the new IQS/FTB-8120(NG) and IQS/FTB-8130(NG) Transport Blazer modules.
Figure 1b. SmartMode signal scan with low-order (VT/TU) tributary scan)
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This signal scan contains valuable information for the user as it: Provides a full view of high-order and low-order path content, allowing field engineers to validate that the circuit is provisioned as expected; Highlights any unused capacity; ideal for capacity planning and provisioning purposes; Provides per-STS/AU and VT/TU path-level information: Path trace: If a path message is provisioned, helps identify customer/circuit type for each path; Signal label: Identifies the content of the path (GFP-mapped traffic, HDLC based, etc.). During its signal scan, SmartMode will also discover any STS/AU and/or VT/TU paths that are part of a virtual concatenation (VCAT) group. VCAT is used to create an aggregate path, composed of multiple STS/AU or VT/TU paths, that best suits the bandwidth requirements for Ethernet services. This VCAT discovery feature is ideal for field engineers as it allows them to quickly identify any VCAT-based Ethernet services. In short, SmartMode discovery demystifies the complexity of next-generation SONET/SDH networks with an intuitive and complete graphical display of the signal content.
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In the screen shot shown above, we can see that SmartMode has discovered two paths in error: STS-1 (1,2) and STS-1 (4,1). A red square indicates that an alarm/error is presently active; whereas the yellow square indicates that an alarm/error has occurred on this path, but is now cleared, thus helping to identify any intermittent problems that occur. To identify the exact alarm/error type, the user simply clicks on the errored path, and all information will be displayed on the right-hand side of the screen. For example, when clicking on STS-1 (1,2), clicking on the path highlights to the user that the active error is an AIS-P, as shown in Figure 3.
Similarly, when selecting STS-1 (4,2), the user can see that the problem for this VCG-equipped path was a B3 error, thus identifying a likely intermittent bit-error problem on this path (as shown in Figure 4).
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