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Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide, R5.0
August 2005
Chapter 6 Create Circuits and VT Tunnels
NTP-A194 Create Overhead Circuits
Note An Encapsulation Mismatch Path alarm appears when a point-to-point circuit is created between
two Ethernet card ports with incompatible Encapsulation payload types.
Step 5 Click Apply.
Step 6 Refresh the POS statistics:
a. Click the Performance > POS Ports > Statistics tabs.
b. Click Refresh.
Stop. You have completed this procedure.
NTP-A194 Create Overhead Circuits
Step 1 Complete the “DLP-A60 Log into CTC” task on page 17-66 at the node where you will create the
overhead circuit. If you are already logged in, continue with Step 2.
Step 2 From the View menu, choose Go to Network View.
Step 3 As needed, complete the “DLP-A313 Create a DCC Tunnel” task on page 20-7.
Step 4 As needed, complete the “DLP-A341 Create an IP-Encapsulated Tunnel” task on page 20-32.
Step 5 As needed, complete the “DLP-A83 Provision Orderwire” task on page 17-84.
Step 6 As needed, complete the “DLP-A212 Create a User Data Channel Circuit” task on page 19-8.
Stop. You have completed this procedure.
Purpose This procedure creates overhead circuits on an ONS 15454 network.
Overhead circuits include DCC tunnels, IP-encapsulated tunnels, the
Alarm Interface Controller (AIC) and Alarm Interface
Controller-International (AIC-I) card orderwire, and the AIC-I card user
data channel (UDC).
Tools/Equipment None
Prerequisite Procedures NTP-A127 Verify Network Turn Up, page 6-4
Required/As Needed As needed
Onsite/Remote Onsite or remote
Security Level Provisioning or higher