Link Management Protocol - LMP
LMP Protocol provides:
- Control Channel dynamic configuration
- Control Channel maintenance (Hello Protocol)
- Link Verification (Discovery, Mis-wiring)
- Link Property Correlation (Link bundling)
- Fault Management
- detection (using LoS/LoL/etc.)
- localization/correlation (alarm suppression)
- notification
LMP extended at OIF to cover
- UNI Neighbor and Service Discovery
- NNI Adjacency, Neighbor and Service Discovery
- Further elaboration for SDH/Sonet and G.709 specifics