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
 
1 

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

2 

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

3 

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 .

4 

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.

5 

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.

6 

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.

7 

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.

8 

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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