Maintenance End Point Functions

Maintenance End Point (MEP) is capable of initiating and terminating OAM frames for fault management and performance monitoring.

The following are the MEP functions:

• Periodically transmits multicast or unicast CCMs;
• Transmits LBM, LTM, TST, DMM, LMM, AIS, and LCK PDUs and responds to the LBMs with LBRs, LTMs with LTRs, DMMs with DMRs, and LMMs with LMRs;
• Validates the received PDU;
• Discards the CFM PDUs that are at a lower MD level than MEP.