scope:

The present document contains the Mechanical, Physical and Operational Test Suite (MPOTS) for networking equipment relying on Plastic Optical Fibre digital communications for both FAST (IEEE 802.3u [i.5], 100 Mbps) and GIGABIT (IEEE 802.3bv [i.7], 1 000 Mbps) Ethernet data transfers along the systems interoperability specifications described in ETSI TS 105 175-1 [i.2], ETSI TS 105 175-1-1 [i.3] and ETSI TS 105 175-1-2 [i.4].

The present document forms the guidelines to lead the technical organization of the POF Plugtests event, in Bordeaux, France from 6th to 8th June 2017. The present document is intended to be upgraded for future interoperability events.

The present document describes:

• the testbed architecture showing with POF systems and networking component are involved and how they are going to interwork;

• the operational scenario used during the tests;

• the interoperability test descriptions describing the scenarios, which the participants will follow to perform the interoperability tests.