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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide
November 2001
Chapter 7 Card Provisioning
Provisioning Optical Cards
Step 6 Repeat Steps 4 – 5 for each subtab that has parameters you want to provision.
7.3 Provisioning Optical Cards
This section explains how to modify transmission quality by provisioning line and threshold settings for
OC-N cards and how to provision OC-N cards for SDH.
7.3.1 Modifying Transmission Quality
The OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 cards are pre-provisioned with settings that you can modify to
manage transmission quality. Depending on the optical card, you can specify thresholds for near and far
end nodes at the Line, Section, and Path levels for 15-minute and one day intervals.
Procedure: Provision Line Transmission Settings for OC-N Cards
Step 1 Display the OC-N card in CTC card view.
Step 2 Click the Provisioning > Line tabs.
Step 3 Modify the settings shown in Table 7-7.
Table 7-7 OC-N Card Line Settings on the Provisioning > Line Tab
Heading Description Options
# Port number
• 1 (OC-12, OC-48,
OC-192)
• 1-4 (OC-3)
SF BER Level Sets the signal fail bit error rate
• 1E-3
• 1E-4 (default)
• 1E-5
SD BER Level Sets the signal degrade bit error rate
• 1E-5
• 1E-6
• 1E-7 (default)
• 1E-8
• 1E-9
Provides
Synch
If checked, the card is provisioned as a network
element timing reference on the Provisioning >
Timing tabs
Read-only
• Yes (checked)
• No (unchecked)
Enable Synch
Messages
Enables synchronization status messages (S1 byte),
which allow the node to choose the best timing
source
• Yes (checked, default)
• No (unchecked)