Link Management Protocol - Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual

Chapter 15 Management Network Connectivity
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15.9 Link Management Protocol

This section describes Link Management Protocol
troubleshoot specific alarms, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Troubleshooting Guide. To configure
LMP, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Procedure Guide.
CTM support is not required for LMP.
Note
LMP is used to establish traffic engineering (TE) links between Cisco ONS 15454 nodes or between
Cisco ONS 15454 nodes and selected non-Cisco nodes that use vendor-specific hardware.
15.9.1 Overview
LMP manages TE links between nodes through the use of control channels. TE links are designed to
define the most efficient paths possible for traffic to flow over a network and through the Internet. Traffic
engineering encompasses traffic management, capacity management, traffic measurement and modeling,
1. The LMP protocol is specified by the IETF in an Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-10.txt, which was
published as a Proposed Standard, RFC 4204, (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4204.txt), on 2005-10-28.
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