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Category: Optical and WDM, Vendor: Ascend/Lucent
Description: Manages OC-3 optical interface configuration and SONET section/line parameters on Ascend equipment.
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What Is ASCEND-MIBOC3INT-MIB?
ASCEND-MIBOC3INT-MIB is a proprietary Ascend Communications MIB for configuring and monitoring OC-3 optical interfaces and their SONET section/line parameters on Ascend equipment. It exposes both configuration data (framing mode, interface provisioning) and operational/alarm data for the optical and SONET layers. This is fundamentally a hardware-status MIB, used to monitor optical signal presence, SONET section/line alarm indications (such as loss of signal or loss of frame), and bit-error statistics that reveal a degrading fiber link or transceiver. It complements standard SONET/optical MIBs (e.g. the IETF SONET-MIB) by adding Ascend-specific interface detail on the same physical port. It was deployed on Ascend high-speed WAN edge and core equipment carrying OC-3 fiber links for carriers and large enterprises. Network engineers evaluating or troubleshooting this functionality can download the ASCEND-MIBOC3INT-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.
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Supported Devices
- Ascend OC-3 WAN edge router
- Ascend SONET-capable access equipment
Monitoring Examples
An operator would poll the OC-3 interface and SONET alarm tables (an ascendOc3IntTable/ascendOc3AlarmEntry style structure) to check for active loss-of-signal or loss-of-frame alarms and rising line bit-error counts, which together would indicate a failing optical transceiver or a fiber cut rather than a configuration issue. No sample objects were supplied for this MIB, so these names are inferred from the stated OC-3/SONET purpose rather than confirmed from source.
What Can Be Monitored
- OC-3 signal presence
- SONET section/line alarm status
- line bit-error rate
- framing mode configuration
- optical interface operational state
Imported Objects
OIDs
RFC description
Vendor-private MIB for Ascend Communications (acquired by Lucent) defining OC3 interface management for ATM/telecom equipment.
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