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Key Components of CFM
CFM provides restricted management access to each Service Instance
using a structured conceptual network based on these components:
• Domain Service Access Points (DSAPs) are the primary maintenance points used to monitor
connectivity across a maintenance domain, and are the entry points to the paths which
interconnect the access points allocated to a service instance
• A Maintenance Domain (MD) is a part of the network controlled by a single operator and supports
management access to the domain as well as connectivity testing between DSAPs
• A Maintenance Association (MA) contains the DSAPs for an individual Service Instance
• A Maintenance Level (ML) allows maintenance domains to be nested in a hierarchical fashion,
providing access to the specific network portions required by each operator
• Maintenance End Points (MEPs) which provide full CFM access to Service Instance (i.e., a
specific MA)
• Maintenance Intermediate Points (MIPs) which are passive entities that merely validate received
CFM messages, or respond to link trace and loop back requests
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