Overview of NP Circuit Provisioning Process
The FOXMAN-UN BP provides information about:
• all the sections between the NEs;
• all NE configuration parameter settings of individual unit and its sub-units (interfaces), cross-connections.
• node members of the NP Domain
The FOXMAN-UN NP uses these information for bottom up provisioning:
• Circuit creation:
− Creating new Application.
The Application is a container of Transport Entities.
− Creating new Transport Entities (TE).
The TE is a connection that is created utilizing existing network cross-connections and Sections. Example of TE is an end-to-end circuit.
− Defining the circuit extremities or terminating points. (a end TP and z end TP)
• Routing the Transport Entities.
− The TE has a Path, which connects the a end TP with the z end TP.
− The Routing can be Automatic or Manual Routing.
• Committing the configuration to the network.
− Configuration changes are made (circuit is created and maintained in the database, cross-connections are created) and automatically downloaded or applied to the node.
Please note:
The NP Pre-requisites and detailed NP User Workflow are discussed in section Commissioning.
Detailed step-by-step Circuit Provisioning is discussed in section Provisioning.
For a list of supported units, please refer to section Appendix A - Supported FOX61x Units.
For quantitative requirements, please refer to section Appendix B - NP Quantitative Requirements.