Supported Features

The following key features are supported by Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensor F100 and F25:

Device Infrastructure and Management Features

• SNMP (v2c, v3) agent and MIB support

• NETCONF support

• Configuration Save and Restore

• CLI (Console, SSH), multiple user privilege levels

• DHCP client - IPv4

• DNS client - IPv4

• Syslog client and relay agent – IPv4

• Configuration upgrade through TFTP or SFTP file transfer – IPv4 and IPv6

• IP authorized managers – IPv4

• Management RJ45 port 10M, 100M and 1G

• Auxiliary port 1G and 10G

• Traffic port 100G

• Jumbo frame support

• Auto-negotiation of speed and duplex modes

• Zero Touch Provisioning

• PM Telemetry

• Platform Monitor

• Alarm Manager

• Audit Log

• User privilege levels

Basic Layer 2 Ethernet Connectivity Features

• 802.3x flow control

• CPU rate limitation for storm protection

• Rate limiting

• Port mirroring

• 802.1Q Customer VLAN bridging functionality

• LLDP

  • Chassis ID subtype is (1) Chassis Component

  • The Management Address TLV is enabled by default in all traffic Ethernet Interfaces after factory reset and reflects the Management IP address of the Flex platform.

  • The Management Address TLV is updated without user intervention if an address change occurs in the system.

  • The System Name TLV is enabled by default in all traffic Ethernet Interfaces after factory reset.

• RMONv1 – statistics, history, alarm, event

• ACLs (Access Control Lists) – L2 (Ethernet header) for traffic filtering

• Link Aggregation (802.3ad)

Advanced Layer 2 Ethernet Switching Features

• 802.1Q Provider Bridge Functionality

• Ethernet CFM 802.1ag, Y.1731

• Basic E-LINE Ethernet Services creation

• VLAN translation support

• MEF 10.2 and 10.3 bandwidth regulator

• Layer 2 Flow Filtering based on multiple VLAN headers

• VLAN Header Re-marking in double tagged scenario

• E-LINE Ethernet Services – 2 TAG support

• Active Standby Link Protection using LAG (LACP)

• E-SAT – Y.1564

  • Simple CIR Test

  • Step Load CIR Test

  • EIR Configuration Test

  • Traffic Policing Test

  • Test reports incorporate EMIX pattern used for test execution and user-defined packet size value used in EMIX pattern

  • Frame Transfer Delay (FTD) values in microsecond precision for both SAC configuration and report

  • Frame Delay Variations (FDV) values in microsecond precision for both SAC configuration and report

  • Frame Loss Ratio (FLR) configuration in SAC profile is extended to support fractional value (example: 0.01%)

  • Layer 1 and Layer 2 Flow configuration support

  • Layer 2 standard frame format support, providing interoperability with third party loopback applications

  • Maximum SLA session creation has been extended to 100 with ID ranges from 1 to 100; the maximum number of active/concurrent SAT sessions running in the system is 10

• L2CP frame transparency mode support

• Facility Loopback for SAT testing

• ETH-SLM and ETH-DMM

• ETH-CSF

• TWAMP