An Operation Support System Architecture and Process for Optical Access Network Allocation During Service Provisioning

Tayama, Kenichi; Inoue, Takashi; Matsumoto, Tsutomu; Uno, Hiroshi

doi:10.1023/b:jons.0000034214.43194.a7

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“…The ability to manage a large amount of fibers and fiber connections becomes even more critical as the outside fiber plant infrastructure grows rapidly coupled with the inherent churn in access networks. Several approaches have been proposed to reduce the cost of operation, administration, maintenance [13,14], and optical fiber line testing systems for single star networks [15,16]. Nevertheless, these approaches often concentrate on efficient ways of transferring information from the outside plant to the Central Office (CO).…”

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Applications of large-scale optical 3D-MEMS switches in fiber-based broadband-access networks

Madamopoulos

Kaman²,

Yuan³

et al. 2009

Photon Netw Commun

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Applications of non-blocking large-scale optical switches based on three-dimensional micro-electro-mechanical system (3D-MEMS) technology with small size and low power consumption are described for fiber-based broadband access networks. The low-loss and fast-switching 3D-MEMS switches offer remotely reconfigurable and automated operational solutions for access networks such as fiber management, preventative maintenance, monitoring, testing, and troubleshooting of a large number of end customers. Furthermore, the wavelength, data rate, and protocol-transparent nature of 3D-MEMS switches results in a future-proof optical distribution network design for future higher speed and higher capacity wavelength division multiplexing overlay upgrades over the passive optical network (PON). We show that large-scale 3D-MEMS switches deployed in PON environments can offer over an order of magnitude in capital and operational savings in comparison to manual patch panels (in deployed fiber hardware, real estate, and manual labor) with minimal impact on the overall network design.

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