An alarm processing method and apparatus is disclosed. Specifically, a mechanism of configuring and detecting an LOF pre-alarm is provided. A detection condition of the LOF pre-alarm is that it is detected that a frame alignment failure lasts for first duration. A detection condition of the LOF alarm is that it is detected that a frame alignment failure lasts for second duration. The second duration is less than the first duration. When detecting the LOF pre-alarm, a network device inserts a first maintenance signal frame. The first maintenance signal frame supports frame alignment. In other words, a network device that receives the first maintenance signal frame may perform normal frame alignment, so that no alarm is reported, for example, the LOF alarm is not triggered.

A method includes mapping, by an optical transceiver, a received first OTU4 signal to a first FlexO frame without interleaving the first OTU4 signal into an ODUC signal prior to mapping the first OTU4 signal to the first FlexO frame. The method also includes communicating, by the optical transceiver, the first FlexO frame with the mapped first OTU4 signal to a coherent DSP over a first FOIC.

A first network element includes trail trace identifier information in an optical network frame. The first network element obtains data to transmit over an optical network link to a second network element. The first network element generates an optical network frame with alignment marker bytes, which are followed by padding bytes. The optical network frame also includes overhead bytes following the padding bytes. The overhead bytes include a Multi-Frame Alignment Signal (MFAS) byte, a link status byte, and reserved bytes. The optical network frame also includes a payload bytes following the overhead bytes. The payload bytes encode at least a portion of the data to transmit to the second network element. The first network element inserts trail trace identifier information into the reserved bytes in the overhead bytes. The trail trace identifier information identifies the first network element as a source of the optical network frame.

A service mapping processing method for an optical transport network, an apparatus, and a system are provided, where the method includes: generating mapping adaptation indication information according to a mapping granularity of a to-be-carried LO ODU, where the mapping granularity is M×g bytes, M is a quantity of timeslots occupied by the to-be-carried LO ODU in an OPUCn, g is a size of a mapping granularity corresponding to each timeslot of the timeslots occupied by the LO ODU, and g is a positive integer greater than 1; mapping, according to the mapping adaptation indication information, the to-be-carried LO ODU to an ODTUCn.M payload area; encapsulating the mapping adaptation indication information into the ODTUCn.M overhead area; encapsulating the ODTUCn.M into an OTUCn; and sending the OTUCn to a receive end device. The method avoids that OTUCns that use different mapping granularities cannot interwork between a receive end and a transmit end.

Embodiments of this application disclose a service resource preconfiguration method and device, and a system. The method includes establishing a first working path, sending a first path message from a first node to a second node, the first path message including an instruction to the second node to preconfigure a second channel resource; and preconfiguring the second channel resource based on the first path message. Fast automatic service recovery can be implemented, and fault recovery performance can be improved.

Provided is a service processing method in an optical transport network, including: mapping a client service into a service container; mapping the service container into an optical transport network frame, wherein a payload area of the optical transport network frame is composed of payload blocks, and the payload blocks are used for carrying the service container; and carrying indication information of the payload block in an overhead area of the optical transport network frame, where a service processing apparatus in an optical transport network and a computer-readable medium are also provided.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method for service processing in optical transport network including: mapping a client service into a service container; and mapping the service container into a data frame, wherein the data frame includes payload units, each of the payload units consists of unit blocks with fixed length, and the service container is carried in the unit blocks. The embodiments of the present disclosure also provide an apparatus for service processing in optical transport network, an electronic device, and a computer readable medium.

A method includes mapping, by an optical transceiver, a received first OTU4 signal to a first FlexO frame without interleaving the first OTU4 signal into an ODUC signal prior to mapping the first OTU4 signal to the first FlexO frame. The method also includes communicating, by the optical transceiver, the first FlexO frame with the mapped first OTU4 signal to a coherent DSP over a first FOIC.

Provided are a method for determining and sending a multiframe, and a communication device. The method includes: for physical layers of different interface bandwidth speeds, determining a multiframe number of the multiframe to be n-th power of 2, where n is a minimum positive integer that causes the multiframe number greater than or equal to a number of timeslots of a physical layer, identifier values of the multiframe identifier for identifying the multiframe number are sequentially carried in preset positions of overhead blocks of respective frames constituting the multiframe, and the number of the identifier values of the multiframe identifier is the same as the multiframe number. The identifier values of the multiframe identifier are a preset number of consecutive “0”s and the preset number of consecutive “1”s in sequence.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data frame transmission method and a related device. The method includes: first, generating a data frame, where an overhead area of the data frame includes a target bit, the target bit simultaneously indicates at least two multiframes, the multiframe includes a plurality of consecutive data frames, different multiframes include different quantities of data frames, different overhead information is inserted into the different multiframes, and the data frame is an optical transport network OTN data frame; and then sending the data frame.