Total Access 5000 Business Services Deployment Guide
N-2 65K510DEP08-1A
ERPS Overview
ERPSprovidescarrierclassprotectionforEthernettrafficinaringtopology.
ERPS Guidelines
WhenprovisioningERPS,observethefollowingguidelines:
•TheERPSringcanonlysupportupto24Nodesperring
•TheERPSringcannotsubtendotherERPSrings,butcansupportsubtend edRPRrings
•OnlyprovisionedInband,internal,andmutlicastVLANscanbeshared.VLANscannot
besharedaccrossNodes
OnlytheSwitchModule2‐10G/2‐1Gigabit,w/RingGenerator
(P/N1187025G1/G2)currentlysupportsERPSprovisioning.
ERPS Configuration
ToconfigureERPS,completethefollowing:
1. EnsureaphysicalringexistsontheselectedTotalAccess 5000network.
Thephysicalringconsistsoffiberconnectionstothe 10GigEports.Selectthe
portsonthenodesgoingfrom
SM AtoSM Binachainingorderuntilreaching
theoriginalsourcenode.
2. SelecttheGigEportsbeingusedforERPS.
Removeanypreviouslyconfigureduplinksonthenetworkport.
3. ConfigureERPSringinterfaceonallthenodes.
Formoreinformation,referto“RingInterfaceCreation”onpage N‐3.