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Contents

About This Manual...........................................................................................................................i

1 About the ASON ........................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.1.1 Background and Advantages.............................................................................................. 1-1
1.1.2 Basic Concepts of ASON................................................................................................... 1-2
1.1.3 Features .............................................................................................................................. 1-6
1.1.4 Huaweis ASON Solution .................................................................................................. 1-6
1.2 Software Structure ....................................................................................................................... 1-8
1.2.1 Location of ASON Software .............................................................................................. 1-8
1.2.2 Structure of ASON Software.............................................................................................. 1-9
1.3 Network Functions .................................................................................................................... 1-10
1.3.1 Topology Auto-Discovery................................................................................................ 1-10
1.3.2 End-to-End Configuration ............................................................................................... 1-11
1.3.3 Mesh Networking Protection and Restoration ................................................................. 1-12
1.3.4 Service Level Agreement ................................................................................................. 1-13
1.3.5 Service Association .......................................................................................................... 1-17
1.3.6 Tunnel Services................................................................................................................ 1-18
1.3.7 Service Optimization ....................................................................................................... 1-19
1.3.8 Equilibrium of Network Traffic ....................................................................................... 1-19
1.3.9 The Shared Risk Link Group ........................................................................................... 1-20
1.3.10 Conversion Between Static Services and ASON Services............................................. 1-20
2 Commissioning ASON Software............................................................................................2-1
2.1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 2-1
2.1.1 Setting Node IDs................................................................................................................ 2-2
2.1.2 Enabling/Disabling the ASON Software............................................................................ 2-3
2.1.3 Loading/Downloading NE Data......................................................................................... 2-3
2.2 Preparations ................................................................................................................................. 2-4
2.3 Resource and Topology Auto-Discovery..................................................................................... 2-4
2.3.1 Topology Auto-Discovery.................................................................................................. 2-4
2.3.2 Resource Auto-Discovery and Update ............................................................................... 2-5

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2.4 Testing ASON Services ............................................................................................................... 2-6

2.4.1 Testing Diamond Services.................................................................................................. 2-6
2.4.2 Testing Gold Services ........................................................................................................ 2-8
2.4.3 Testing Silver Services..................................................................................................... 2-11
2.4.4 Testing Copper Services................................................................................................... 2-13
2.4.5 Testing Service Optimization........................................................................................... 2-14
2.4.6 Testing Rerouting Lockout............................................................................................... 2-17
2.4.7 Testing Batch Rerouting................................................................................................... 2-18
2.5 Testing the Traffic Engineering Function .................................................................................. 2-19
3 Configuring ASON Services....................................................................................................3-1
3.1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................... 3-1
3.1.1 Rerouting............................................................................................................................ 3-1
3.1.2 Revertive Rerouting ........................................................................................................... 3-1
3.1.3 Static Services .................................................................................................................... 3-1
3.1.4 Timeslot Reservation ......................................................................................................... 3-2
3.2 Configuring an ASON NE........................................................................................................... 3-2
3.2.1 Service Requirements ........................................................................................................ 3-2
3.2.2 Configuration ..................................................................................................................... 3-2
3.3 Configuring Diamond Service..................................................................................................... 3-8
3.3.1 Service Requirements ........................................................................................................ 3-8
3.3.2 Service Planning ................................................................................................................ 3-8
3.3.3 Configuration ..................................................................................................................... 3-9
3.4 Configuring Gold Services ........................................................................................................ 3-10
3.4.1 Service Requirements ...................................................................................................... 3-10
3.4.2 Service Planning .............................................................................................................. 3-11
3.4.3 Configuration ................................................................................................................... 3-11
3.5 Configuring Silver Services ...................................................................................................... 3-13
3.5.1 Service Requirements ...................................................................................................... 3-13
3.5.2 Service Planning .............................................................................................................. 3-13
3.5.3 Configuration ................................................................................................................... 3-14
3.6 Configuring Copper services ..................................................................................................... 3-15
3.6.1 Service Requirements ...................................................................................................... 3-15
3.6.2 Service Planning .............................................................................................................. 3-15
3.6.3 Configuration ................................................................................................................... 3-16
3.7 Configuring Tunnel Services..................................................................................................... 3-17
3.7.1 Service Requirements ...................................................................................................... 3-17
3.7.2 Service Planning .............................................................................................................. 3-17
3.7.3 Configuration ................................................................................................................... 3-18
3.8 Set or Cancel the Association of Two ION Trails...................................................................... 3-19
3.9 Prioritizing Silver Trails ............................................................................................................ 3-21

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3.10 Other Operations for ASON Services...................................................................................... 3-22

3.10.1 Optimizing ION Trails ................................................................................................... 3-22
3.10.2 Deleting ASON Services................................................................................................ 3-22
3.10.3 Configuring SRLG......................................................................................................... 3-23
4 ASON Maintenance...................................................................................................................4-1
4.1 Precautions .................................................................................................................................. 4-1
4.1.1 Starting/Stopping Lasers .................................................................................................... 4-1
4.1.2 Looping Back Optical Interfaces ....................................................................................... 4-1
4.1.3 Inserting/Removing Fibers................................................................................................. 4-1
4.1.4 Replacing/Resetting GSCC Boards ................................................................................... 4-1
4.1.5 Creating/Deleting MSP Configurations ............................................................................. 4-2
4.2 Routine Maintenance................................................................................................................... 4-2
4.2.1 Checking ASON Services .................................................................................................. 4-2
4.2.2 Checking the TE Trunk Topology...................................................................................... 4-3
4.2.3 Checking Reserved Resources ........................................................................................... 4-3
4.2.4 Checking the Rerouting Function ...................................................................................... 4-4
4.2.5 Checking Gold Service Degrade........................................................................................ 4-4
4.3 Performance and Alarms ............................................................................................................. 4-4
4.3.1 Viewing Current ASON Alarms......................................................................................... 4-4
4.3.2 Viewing History ASON Alarms ......................................................................................... 4-4
4.3.3 Viewing Abnormal Events ................................................................................................. 4-5
4.3.4 Viewing Current ASON Performance Data ....................................................................... 4-5
4.3.5 Viewing History ASON Performance Data........................................................................ 4-5
4.4 Managing ION Control Plane...................................................................................................... 4-6
4.4.1 Synchronising Control Link............................................................................................... 4-6
4.4.2 Browsing Control Link ...................................................................................................... 4-6
4.4.3 Creating Link Management Protocol................................................................................. 4-7
4.4.4 Deleting Linking Management Protocol............................................................................ 4-7
4.4.5 Setting Rerouting Reversion Time..................................................................................... 4-7
A Standard Compliance............................................................................................................. A-1
A.1 ITU-T Requirements.................................................................................................................. A-1
A.2 IETF Standards .......................................................................................................................... A-2
B Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................................B-1
Index ................................................................................................................................................ i-1

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Figures

Figure 1-1 Three plane of the ASON................................................................................................ 1-3

Figure 1-2 The backbone layer solution ........................................................................................... 1-7
Figure 1-3 The network solution ...................................................................................................... 1-8
Figure 1-4 Software structure of the OptiX OSN series................................................................... 1-8
Figure 1-5 Structure of ASON software ........................................................................................... 1-9
Figure 1-6 Control topology auto-discovery .................................................................................. 1-10
Figure 1-7 Service topology auto-discovery................................................................................... 1-11
Figure 1-8 End-to-end service configuration.................................................................................. 1-12
Figure 1-9 Trail Protection ............................................................................................................. 1-13
Figure 1-10 A diamond service....................................................................................................... 1-14
Figure 1-11 A gold service.............................................................................................................. 1-15
Figure 1-12 A silver service............................................................................................................ 1-16
Figure 1-13 Association services .................................................................................................... 1-17
Figure 1-14 Tunnel services............................................................................................................ 1-18
Figure 1-15 Traffic equilibrium ...................................................................................................... 1-19
Figure 2-1 Networking diagram ....................................................................................................... 2-2
Figure 2-2 Board configuration ........................................................................................................ 2-2
Figure 2-3 An MSP ring.................................................................................................................... 2-9
Figure 3-1 Networking diagram ....................................................................................................... 3-2
Figure 3-2 The required diamond service......................................................................................... 3-8
Figure 3-3 The required gold service.............................................................................................. 3-10
Figure 3-4 The required silver service............................................................................................ 3-13
Figure 3-5 The required copper service.......................................................................................... 3-15
Figure 3-6 The required tunnel service........................................................................................... 3-17

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Tables

Table 1-1 OptiX OSN series products............................................................................................... 1-7

Table 1-2 Glossary ............................................................................................................................ 1-9
Table 1-3 Service level.................................................................................................................... 1-13
Table 3-1 Service attributes .............................................................................................................. 3-8
Table 3-2 Service attributes ............................................................................................................ 3-11
Table 3-3 Service attributes ............................................................................................................ 3-13
Table 3-4 Service attributes ............................................................................................................ 3-15
Table 3-5 Service attributes ............................................................................................................ 3-17
Table 4-1 Routine maintenance items and cycles ............................................................................. 4-2

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