Channelization support

You can use channelization functionality to subdivide a larger flexible optical interface into sub interfaces or channels. The router has 12 ASIC circuits (PE) as a part of a Packet Forwarding Engine, and each PE switch has 5 ports (one standalone MAC port and 4 channelized MAC ports). The standalone MAC ports cannot be channelized. On the router, you can channelize 48 ports out of available 60 ports. By default, the ports come up in a mode that does not support channelization. If you channelize a port in a PE switch for the first time, it would result in FPC reboot. But if you channelize another port in the same PE switch, the FPC will not be rebooted. If you channelize a port in a different PE switch, the FPC will be rebooted.To enable channelization on an interface: [edit chassis fpc fpc-slot pic pic-slot] user@switch# set port port-number channel-speed speed