Protection switching support

One of the key features of optical networks is protection switching. VMware Smart Assurance Optical Transport Manager supports Layer 1 network topologies with the following protection schemes for SONET/SDH networks:

• 1+1 Automatic Protection Switching (APS)

• 1:N protection

• 1+1 protection

• 2-fiber Bidirectional Line Switched Ring (BLSR) or 2-fiber Multiplex Section-Shared Protection Ring (MS-SPRing)

• 4-fiber BLSR or 4-fiber MS-SPRing

• UPSR (SNCP)

  The following protection scheme is supported for the WDM network:

• 1+1 ClientCircuit/TopologicalLink Protection

  The following protection scheme is supported for the WDM NG domain:

• Y-cable protection

• SNC protection