Hi,
In section 4.2
Technology Specific Bandwidth Accounting, it says:
In the
ASON context, accounting on per timeslot basis using 32-bit
tuples of the form <signal_type (8 bits); number of unallocated
timeslots (24 bits)> may optionally be incorporated in the
technology specific field of the ISCD TE link attribute when
the
switching capability field is set to TDM value. When
included,
format and encoding MUST follow the rules defined in
[RFC4202].
The signal types
as defined in RFC4606 Section 2.1
covers a basic set. The
signal type is used in conjunction with the other attributes like RCC, NCC,
etc., to determine other Elementary Signal such as STS-12c SPE, STS-48c SPE, STS-192c SPE
etc.
It is not clear to me how this 8-bit filed could be used to cover all
the different types of signal types.
Thanks and best regards,
Vijay