Ciena Corporation
Flexible Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance systems and methods

Abstract:

A node includes circuitry configured to create a sequence of encoded blocks with the blocks including i) data blocks from a plurality of clients and ii) overhead blocks, insert one or more Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) fields representing client overhead in the overhead blocks, wherein each client has corresponding client overhead, and transmit the sequence of encoded blocks in an order.