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

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
• 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