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Chapter 15 Management Network Connectivity
15.9 Link Management Protocol
Figure 15-30 OSI/IP Scenario 4
15.9 Link Management Protocol
This section describes Link Management Protocol
1
(LMP) management and configuration. To
troubleshoot specific alarms, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Troubleshooting Guide. To configure
LMP, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Procedure Guide.
Note CTM support is not required for LMP.
LMP is used to establish traffic engineering (TE) links between Cisco ONS 15454 nodes or between
Cisco ONS 15454 nodes and selected non-Cisco nodes that use vendor-specific hardware.
15.9.1 Overview
LMP manages TE links between nodes through the use of control channels. TE links are designed to
define the most efficient paths possible for traffic to flow over a network and through the Internet. Traffic
engineering encompasses traffic management, capacity management, traffic measurement and modeling,
OSC
OSC
GCC
OSC
OSC
SDCC/RS-DCC
SDCC/RS-DCC
OSI over SDCC/RS-DCC
OSI over SDCC/RS-DCC
TXP/MXP
TXP/MXP
Other vendor
SONET/SDH
Other vendor
SONET/SDH
DCN (IPP over
CLNS tunnel)
MSTP
GNE
MSTPMSTP
MSTP
137659
CTM
1. The LMP protocol is specified by the IETF in an Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-10.txt, which was
published as a Proposed Standard, RFC 4204, (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4204.txt), on 2005-10-28.
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