Working with physical links

Overview

The NFM-P allows you to create and manage links at the Layer 1 level. The physical links represent the actual physical configuration of network connections between ports. You can view and manage physical links from the physical topology map and the Manage Equipment list form.

When a physical link becomes operationally down, an alarm is raised against the link, and correlated to alarms on the ports on either end of the link.

Although there is no limit to the number of physical links you can have in a system, Nokia recommends a maximum of 10 000 physical links for optimal system performance.

Radio links between Wavence SMs are shown as physical links by the NFM-P, with ports as the endpoint type.

See Chapter 4, Topology map management for information about configuring physical links and managing physical links using maps.