Subnetwork Craft Terminal

Subnetwork Craft Terminal (SCT) is a specialized software management interface used by field technicians and network engineers to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot individual elements within a telecommunications transport network.

To use the SCT software for physical maintenance or setup, technicians typically:

# Create a dedicated network namespace for isolation ip netns add sct-vlan100 ip link set eth0 netns sct-vlan100 ip netns exec sct-vlan100 ip link set eth0 up # Do NOT assign an IP address—stay pure Layer 2