Ciena Corporation
Flexible ethernet operations, administration, and maintenance systems and methods

Abstract:

A node includes circuitry configured to interface a stream of encoded blocks with the blocks including i) data blocks from one or more clients and ii) overhead blocks, wherein a calendar is utilized for block distribution in the stream of encoded blocks; and circuitry configured to process one or more Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) fields in the overhead blocks, wherein the OAM fields are associated with the one or more clients in the data blocks.