Ethernet Carrier Group Alarm (CGA)

摘要

Novel tools and techniques for providing network state information to customer equipment. In some embodiments, an operations, administration, and management (“OAM”) server might determine a status of a network connection between at least two network devices, might generate state information indicating the determined status of the network connection, and might send the state information to one or more customer equipment, using in-band signaling over a band between the at least two network devices. The state information might include one or more alarms that indicate one or more of a receive path error, a transmit path error, or a performance issue error (which might indicate at least one of jitter, delay, frame loss, peak actual throughput, or average actual throughput). The OAM server might be disposed or embodied within at least one of a customer equipment, a user network interface device, a network interface device, or a server over a network.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
determining, with an operations, administration, and management (“OAM”) server, a status of a network connection between at least two network devices; generating, with the OAM server, state information indicating the determined status of the network connection between the at least two network devices; and sending, with the OAM server, the state information to one or more customer equipment, using in-band signaling over a first band between the at least two network devices.