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Re: [EFM] OAM - Faye's seven points




At 20:16 20/09/2001 -0400, Matt Squire wrote:


>Both OAM and data traffic travel over the same medium.  No matter how we
>slice it, OAM traffic does reduce the bandwidth available to the user.

Absolutely.  Unless you are talking about OAM being carried on a separate 
physical medium, arguments about side band vs frame based solutions seem to 
me to be somewhat spurious. The real issue here is whether the OAM traffic 
is bandwidth-limited or not.

>One way to cap that effect is to use a dedicated side-band with a
>limited bandwidth.  An alternate way to cap the effect is to
>police/shape the OAM traffic at a layer above.  A third alternative is
>to use something like a slow protocol which is limited to 5 frames/sec.

Isn't option 3 just a specific example of option 2?

Regards,
Tony


>Roy Bynum wrote:
> >
> > Harry,
> >
> > I think that Faye is correct.  If the OAM is "frame" based, then it will
> > share the same bandwidth with the customer traffic.  Only if the OAM is
> > "side band" will it not share the same bandwidth as the customer traffic.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Roy Bynum
> >
> > At 02:31 PM 9/20/01 -0700, Harry Hvostov wrote:
> >
> > >Faye,
> > >
> > >What I meant was that the OAM control frames would not be forwarded 
> outside
> > >the ePON network.
> > >
> > >Harry