Installation Configurations - Foundry Networks NetIron M2404C User Manual

Foundry NetIron M2404C and M2404F Metro Access Switches
Potential Applications
The data-link layer OAM is targeted at last-mile applications and service providers can use it for
demarcation point OAM services.
Ethernet Last Mile applications require robust infrastructure that is both passive and active.
802.3ah OAM aims at solve validation and testing problems in such an infrastructure.
Using the Ethernet demarcation service providers can additionally manage the remote device
without utilizing an IP layer. This can be done by using link-layer SNMP counters request and
reply, loopback testing and other techniques described in this draft.
An xDSL modem can be regarded as a predecessor of demarcation devices running 802.3ah OAM.
It can be used to validate the last mile infrastructure and thus validate the quality of the service
provided by using the provider's infrastructure.

Installation Configurations

The following configuration
device) using 802.3ah standard.
The configuration below
802.3ah.
Intermediate 802.3ah EFM OAM
(Figure
Figure 9: Managing Provider Switches using the EFM 802.3ah Standard
(Figure 10) illustrates how to manage the customer switches using EFM
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9) shows how to manage the provider switch (CPE passive
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