One solution for management of OTN cross-connect functionality using SNMP

Time slot and wavelength switching have increasing role in IP networks due to their ability to switch high speed data flows in simpler and more economical and energy efficient way than packet switching. The introduction of GMPLS directly integrates IP layer with underlying time slot and wavelength switched layers, whose most important representative is OTN layer. This paper describes one solution for the modelling of OTN cross-connect functionality using SNMP.