Monitoring your Optical Networks

The need for remote channel monitoring

Site visits are expensive and time consuming.

For remote sites with no personnel present, when a resource fails is it the resource or the infrastructure? With OCM the network monitoring team can come to a determination within a couple of minutes.

Having the optical data is valuable both for networks you own or for resources you lease – you have empirical data to give the operator/maintenance company.

OCM also prevents wasted site visits where records may not be 100% accurate

OCM can be used both for provisioning and troubleshooting purposes

OCM can be integrated into your management system and alarm when the optical characteristics of a given channel change.

OCM currently monitors the full DWDM channel range with CWDM monitoring scheduled for Q1 2020.

Use Case – DWDM Optical Channel line Monitoring

DWDM

DWDM

HeadEnd

RemoteHubEast

DWDM

RemoteHubWest

Optical Channel Monitor will provide Optical Channel Power and OSNR

Use at HeadEnd and Remote Hub sites

Monitoring results: *Central wavelength, Total power, Ch. Power, and OSNR *Users can config a Customer Tag for each wavelength *Independent alarm threshold/processing for each wavelength

OCM Test Results

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