Test Plan for Optical Grooming Switches - Light Reading

Test Plan for Optical Grooming Switches
3. Using management interface of ethernet tester, confirm packet losses above agreed SLA
or available bandwidth.
Expected result:
ethernet tester reports packet loss for higher throughput agreed under SLA agreement or
available bandwidth on interface.
Switch management system gives sensible outputs
Any other comments:
Confirm any alarms displayed on the switch management system
Repeat tests as required to test other rate Ethernet interfaces.
TCA037: Confirm support for 10/100Base T ethernet interfaces and that switch can
transport 100Mbit/s ethernet services
Purpose:
To confirm 10/100 BaseT ethernet interface is supported
To confirm switch can cope with 100Mb/s ethernet granularity
Test method:
1. Start off with Configuration A, with no trails configured.
2. Break fibre PAR#5-NY#3
3. Use ethernet tester and switch management system to set up 100Mb/s ethernet trail between tribs PAR#18
and NY#14
4. Confirm, using switch management system, the creation of the required trail.
5. Confirm, using ethernet tester, error free operation of the created trail.
6. Repair fibre PAR#5-NY#3
Expected result:
• ethernet tester report no packet loss.
• Switch management reports no alarms or warning.
• Circuit is routed via 2 hop route PAR-LON-NY or PAR-LA-NY
Other comments:
Purpose of breaking fibre PAR#5-NY#3 for this test was to ensure switch can route ethernet
granularity
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BLOCK 6. Multiple payloads trunk filling, grooming and Virtual Concatenation
Test Block description:
Investigation mixed granularity payloads and virtual concatenation.
Test equipment needed:
Four SONET/SDH test sets.
TCA038: Carry multiple SONET payloads through single interface
Purpose:
To confirm can mix different payloads within one trib and trunk
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