To connect a G.8032 Ethernet ring to a VPLS

Purpose

Perform the following procedure to connect an existing G.8032 Ethernet ring to a VPLS. See Ethernet G.8032 rings for information about using the NFM-P to automatically create G.8032 Ethernet rings. See To create an Ethernet G.8032 ring to create G.8032 Ethernet rings using the NFM-P GUI.

Connecting an Ethernet ring adds the sites in the ring to the VPLS, then creates SAPs and paths for the ring.

Steps
 

Choose Manage→Service→Services from the NFM-P main menu. The Manage Services form opens.


Choose a VPLS and click Properties. The VPLS Service (Edit) form opens.


Perform the following bandwidth management configuration as required:

  1. To configure service-level bandwidth management parameters for the service, see To configure bandwidth management for a VPLS .

  2. To configure service tunnel required bandwidth for a VPLS site, see To configure service tunnel required bandwidth for a VPLS site .


Select one or more sites in the navigation tree and right-click and choose Connect to Ethernet Ring. The sites must be part of the same Ethernet ring. The Connect to Ethernet Ring form opens.


Select an Ethernet ring:

  1. Click Select to manually select an Ethernet ring.

  2. Enable the Automatic Ring Selection parameter to automatically select an Ethernet ring and select a Tunnel Selection Profile.

    Note: To use a Tunnel Selection Profile, the Multi-Segment Tunnel Selection system preference must be enabled. For information, see the procedure to configure NFM-P system preferences in the NSP System Administrator Guide.


Configure the required parameters.

Note: If you are connecting a G.8032 Ethernet ring to a VPLS using a Dot1q SAP, only configure the Data Service Outer Encap parameter. For QinQ SAPs, configure both the Data Service Outer/Inner Encap parameters.


As required, repeat Step 3 to perform additional bandwidth management configuration on customer SAPs. If you modify the bandwidth parameters, choose Audit CAC to recalculate service tunnel bandwidth booking.


Save the changes and close the forms. All sites in the ring are created in the service, if they were not already present.

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