Ciena Corporation
Low or zero touch provisioning systems and methods of network elements over unnumbered interfaces

Abstract:

A method of low or zero touch provisioning of a network element over an unnumbered interface includes, subsequent to booting up, communicating to a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Relay Agent from the unnumbered interface; downloading a configuration through the DHCP Relay Agent over the unnumbered interface; and configuring the network element based on the downloaded configuration. The unnumbered interface can be one of an Ethernet point-to-point interface and an Optical Service Channel (OSC) interface and an overhead channel on optical port, and wherein the unnumbered interface does not have an Internet Protocol (IP) address.