Specifications

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Cisco ONS 15454 Installation and Operations Guide, R3.2
March 2002
Chapter 9 Ethernet Operation
E Series Circuit Configurations
Step 2 Double-click one of the Ethernet cards that will carry the circuit.
Step 3 Click the Provisioning > Card tabs.
Step 4 Under Card Mode, verify that Single-card EtherSwitch is checked.
If the Single-card EtherSwitch is not checked, check it and click Apply.
Step 5 Display the node view.
Step 6 Click the Circuits tab and click Create.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Attributes) dialog box opens (Figure 9-20).
Figure 9-20 Creating an Ethernet circuit
Step 7
In the Name field, type a name for the circuit.
Step 8 From the Type pull-down menu, choose STS.
Note The types VT and VT Tunnel do not apply to Ethernet circuits.
Step 9 Choose the size of the circuit from the Size pull-down menu.
The valid circuit sizes for an Ethernet Multicard circuit are STS-1, STS-3c and STS-6c.
Step 10 Verify that the Bidirectional checkbox is checked and click Next.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Source) dialog box opens.
Step 11 From the Node menu, choose the current node as the circuit source.
Step 12 From the Slot menu, choose the Ethernet card that will carry the circuit and click Next.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit Destination) dialog box opens.
Step 13 From the Node menu, choose the current node as the circuit destination.
Step 14 From the Slot menu, choose the optical card that will carry the circuit.
Step 15 Choose the STS that will carry the circuit from the STS menu and click Next.
Note For Ethernet manual cross-connects, the same node serves as both source and destination.
The Circuit Creation (Circuit VLAN Selection) dialog box opens (Figure 9-15 on page 9-20).
Step 16 Create the VLAN:
a. Click the New VLAN tab.
The Circuit Creation (Define New VLAN) dialog box opens (Figure 9-14 on page 9-20).