Alcatel-Lucent 1643 AMS User's Operation Manual page 104

Management communication setup
Flexible NSAP address fields
The flexible NSAP address has the following fields:
Field
Area Address
System Identifier
(SID)
Selector (Sel)
In this way, the flexible NSAP address can vary from 8 to 20 bytes.
Notice that the flexible NSAP address format can be used to derive the other formats.
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Function It Provides
Has two provisionable parts:
•
AFI (Authority and Format Identifier) field, which may vary between 10
and 99 (HEX).
•
Flexible part, which may vary from 0 to 12 bytes.
Identifies the node. In most network element types, the Ethernet address is
copied into the SID address field and this makes the NSAP address unique
throughout the DCN.
Set to 01 (HEX) for the network elements.
Alcatel-Lucent - Proprietary
See notice on first page
NSAP address format
365-312-807R7.2
Issue 4, May 2007