COVERING NOTE

GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

Geneva, 29 January 2014

ITU TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARDIZATION SECTOR

Subject: Erratum 1(01/2014) to Recommendation ITU-T G.709/Y.1331 (2014),

Interfaces for the optical transport network
Figure 15-3, ODUk frame structure, ODUk and OPUk overhead, reflects incorrectly the number of
columns of the frame structure.
Replace Figure 15-3 with the following corrected figure:
Column
1 ........

14 15

1
2
e
ov
Uk
OD

3
4

e ad
rh

16

............

17

OPUk
overhead

Row

3824

OPUk payload
(4 3808 bytes)

BIP8 parity block

Column #
7

TCM2
GCC2

13

14

TCM5

TCM4

15

TCM1

PM

APS/PCC

Path monitoring
Tandem connection monitoring
Path monitoring and
Tandem connection monitoring
Source access point identifier
Destination access point identifier
Reserved for future international standardization
Activation/deactivation control channel
Fault type and fault location reporting channel
Experimental
General communication channel
Automatic protection switching coordination channel
Protection communication control channel
Backward incoming alignment error
Trail trace identifier
Bit interleaved parity - level 8
Backward error indication
Backward defect indication
Status
Payload structure identifier
Payload type
Delay measurement

FTFL

16

OPUk
overhead

EXP

RES
PM and TCMi (i = 1..6)
3
1
2
TTI

BIP-8

Mapping
and
2 concatenation
specific
3

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
SAPI

15
16

BEI

STAT

PSI

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
DAPI

31
32

63

OPUk OH
15
16

BEI/BIAE

STAT
0
1

PM and TCM

......

GCC1

TCM6

BDI

TCM3

12

BDI

PM and TCM
TCM ACT

11

PM

RES

10

OTUk overhead

...

PM
TCM
PM and
TCM
SAPI
DAPI
RES
ACT
FTFL
EXP
GCC
APS
PCC
BIAE
TTI
BIP8
BEI
BDI
STAT
PSI
PT
DM

...

......

Row #

Frame alignment overhead

1
2

TCMi

Operator
specific

PT
Mapping
and
concatenation
specific

255
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
DMt1
DMt2
DMt3
DMt4
DMt5
DMt6
DMp
RES

G.709-Y.1331(12)Err1_F15-3

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