A network design method includes calculating, from the number of wavelength filters on a transmission route of an optical signal, a bandwidth of the optical signal after narrowing by the wavelength filters, selecting, from a plurality of combinations of a multi-level modulation system and a baud rate about the optical signal set in a transmitting apparatus, one or more first combinations about which a lower-limit value of the bandwidth of the optical signal in each of the combinations is equal to or smaller than the bandwidth of the optical signal after narrowing, and selecting a second combination from the one or more first combinations based on a minimum value of an OSRN of the optical signal in the selected combinations.

An apparatus and method for optimizing dynamically the performance of an optical network, said apparatus comprising at least one learning engine adapted to update a learning model in response to network metrics of said optical network collected during operation of said optical network, wherein the updated learning model is used to generate channel rank information for network channels; and a recommendation engine adapted to change a network channel throughput, a signal path and/or a spectral location of at least one network channel based on the channel rank information generated by the learning model of said learning engine.

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a channel training method, apparatus, and system, so as to resolve a problem in which a newly added ONU in a PON cannot be registered and go online in time. In embodiments of the present disclosure, a first moment for triggering channel training is determined; normal data is stopped sending from the first moment and a training frame is generated; and then the training frame is sent to all ONUs in a PON, so that a target ONU trains an automatic adaptive equalizer based on the training frame, where the target ONU is at least one of all the ONUs in the PON. The solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are applicable to the equalizer training the ONU.

One embodiment provides a system and method for managing traffic in a network that includes at least a passive optical network (PON). During operation, the system obtains traffic status associated with the PON, generates a traffic-shaping factor for the PON based on the traffic status, and applies traffic shaping for each optical network unit (ONU) within the PON using the generated traffic-shaping factor. The traffic-shaping factor determines a portion of a best-effort data rate to be provided to each ONU.

A method and apparatus for allocating a bandwidth based on machine learning in a passive optical network, the method including generating an inference model to predict a consumed bandwidth required for transmission by learning unstructured data of a PON including an OLT and traffic data corresponding to state information of the PON collected from the PON, predicting a consumed bandwidth with respect to a queue corresponding to a class requiring a low-latency service among classes of ONUS connected to the OLT based on the generated inference model, performing a VBA with respect to the queue corresponding to the class requiring the low-latency service based on the predicted consumed bandwidth, and performing a DBA with respect to a queue corresponding to a class not requiring the low-latency service using a transmission bandwidth which remains after the VBA is performed.

The present invention discloses an upper device connected to an opposing device by a communication line which is a carrier signal transmission line. The upper device includes one or a plurality of transceivers that mutually convert a carrier signal and an electrical signal; a line concentrator that has a first port for an upper network, a second port for the transceiver, and a third port for management communication, and sets a communication path between the ports; and a control unit for management communication connected to the third port. When there is no response message from the opposing device within a predetermined period of time after the control unit inputs a management frame destined for the opposing device and including control information for the opposing device, to the third port, the control unit reinputs the management frame to the third port.

Provided are an optical communication device and an optical communication system capable of preventing the costs of equipment from increasing for an optical communication network constructed including devices provided by different vendors or devices of different generations. An optical communication device 10 includes a plurality of optical transponders 15a, 15b, 15c, and 15d configured to perform mutual conversion between an optical signal and an electrical signal; a noise addition unit 14 configured to add noise that degrades signal quality to an input optical signal and output the resulting optical signal; a first optical switch configured to output an optical signal input from outside or the noise addition unit 14 to at least one of the plurality of optical transponders 15a, 15b, 15c, and 15d; and a second optical switch configured to directly or indirectly output an optical signal input from the at least one of the plurality of optical transponders 15a, 15b, 15c, and 15d to outside or the noise addition unit 14.

A method includes: mapping a to-be-transmitted service flow to a virtual connection based on a mapping relationship between an identifier of the to-be-transmitted service flow and an identifier of the virtual connection; mapping the to-be-transmitted service flow to a virtual bearer based on a mapping relationship between the identifier of the virtual connection and an identifier of the virtual bearer; and mapping the to-be-transmitted service flow to a virtual bearer queue based on a mapping relationship between a quality of service characteristic identifier of the to-be-transmitted service flow and an identifier of the virtual bearer queue in the virtual bearer, to transmit the to-be-transmitted service flow to an OLT.

Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method, an apparatus, and a system, to provide an SLA assurance for a newly emerging service. The method includes: An optical network terminal ONT receives a first data packet. The ONT matches first information about the first data packet with a locally or remotely stored first information base, where a service corresponding to the first information in the first information base is in a preconfigured service set. When the first information base does not include the first information about the first data packet, the ONT sends, through a first path, the first data packet to a first server corresponding to a first service, and when the ONT determines that the first service is in the preconfigured service set, the ONT adds the first information about the first data packet to the first information base.

An optical switch having a plurality of ports outputs an optical signal, which is input from one of the plurality of ports, from another port. A quality compensator perform quality compensation of the optical signal output from the optical switch, and input the quality-compensated optical signal to the optical switch. A controller selects, among the plurality of quality compensators, a quality compensator that performs quality compensation according to the degree of quality deterioration of the optical signal when the optical signal input from a predetermined port of the optical switch is transmitted through a transmission path. The controller controls the optical switch so that the optical signal, in which quality is compensated by the selected quality compensator through the optical signal input from the predetermined port being output to the selected quality compensator, is output from the port corresponding to a transmission destination of the optical signal.