The following is an example of the record creating a Circuit in SONET/SDH. (Type this string as one line; line feeds in this example have been added for readability.)

1000|CIRCUIT|SONET-SDH|||
Node1/1-1-8/1/25|
ME3/1-3-1-5/1/25|
1|TRAIL|Node1/1-1-8/1/25|Node3/1-1-8/1/25|
2|TRAIL|ME1/1-3-16-2/1/25|ME3/1-3-1-5/1/25|
3|ATTRIBUTE|STRING|Owner|Acme Corp

The following text is an example of the record creating a Circuit in DWDM. (Type this string as one line; line feeds in this example have been added for readability.)

11000|CIRCUIT|WDM|||
Node1/Node1/2/2/8/1/UNDEFINED/OCN/IN|
Node1/Node1/2/2/7/1/UNDEFINED/OCN/OUT|
1|TRAIL|
Node1/Node1/2/2/8/1/UNDEFINED/OCN/IN|
Node1/Node1/2/2/7/1/UNDEFINED/OCN/OUT|
2|ATTRIBUTE|STRING|ServiceName|NY-to-LA