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Protocol Tabs
Error Alarm
SDH Transmit - Error Alarm
Use this screen to configure and transmit SDH errors and alarms.
For information on inserting errors and alarms see the online help topics,
Errors
and
Inserting Alarms
The following options are available on the SDH Errors and Alarms screen.
•
Error to Insert
•
Error Insert Rate
•
Alarm Generated
SDH Error/Alarm - Error to Insert
This Error to Insert function determines the type of error transmitted by the system.
The purpose of generating an error or alarm is to stress the network element that is
receiving the error or alarm by testing if it can detect the incoming error/alarm and then
report error/alarm statistics or if it can perform the appropriate actions required.
Depending on the selected mapping, the following error types are available:
Option
None
Frame
B1 Error
427
in the Common Tasks section.
Description
No errors are generated. Turns errors off.
Inserts a frame alignment error in the A1 and A2 bytes.
Generates a BIP-8 (Bit Interleaved Parity, 8-bit) error over
the Regenerator Section layer. Bits in the B1 byte are
toggled to create an error.
This type of simulation allows an NE (in this case, the
Inserting