A system and method for performing an in-service optical time domain reflectometry test, an in-service insertion loss test, and an in-service optical frequency domain reflectometry test using a same wavelength as the network communications for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint optical fiber networks while maintaining continuity of network communications are disclosed.

The disclosure provides an interconnecting node for interconnecting first and second protected domains, the second protected domain comprising a working path and a protection path for linear protection in a network for traffic forwarding between two end-nodes. The interconnecting node comprises at least one interface for receiving first monitoring information from the first protected domain, a monitoring unit for detecting an isolation condition of the interconnecting node within the first protected domain based on the first monitoring information, and generating second monitoring information to be transmitted to the working path so that a failure in the working path is detectable based on the second monitoring information at a far-end node of the working path. If an isolation condition is detected, the monitoring unit starts transmitting alarm indication information to the working path for suppressing at the far-end node an alarm reporting regarding a failure in the working path.

A transmission device includes a processor configured to: extract data other than an idle signal from an input signal, generate a first frame in which the extracted data is stored, and store the generated first frames in a second frame, each of the generated first frames being the first frame; and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to: divide the second frame to transmit through a plurality of lines corresponding to storage areas of the first frames in the second frame among the plurality of lines, and when a failure occurs in a line among the plurality of lines, store the first frame corresponding to the line in which the failure occurs in an area, the first frame in the area being to be transmitted through a line different from the line in which the failure occurs.

An apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) is configured to modify a preamble of a data packet to include channel bonding information. The apparatus may further fragment the data packet into a plurality of data frames and transmit the fragmented data frames through multiple channels. The channel bonding information may be used to identify different channels and to identify data frames transmitted through each channel.

A system and method for performing an in-service optical time domain reflectometry test, an in-service insertion loss test, and an in-service optical frequency domain reflectometry test using a same wavelength as the network communications for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint optical fiber networks while maintaining continuity of network communications are disclosed.

An apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) is configured to modify a preamble of a data packet to include channel bonding information. The apparatus may further fragment the data packet into a plurality of data frames and transmit the fragmented data frames through multiple channels. The channel bonding information may be used to identify different channels and to identify data frames transmitted through each channel.

The invention relates to a method for controlling access to an out-of-band communication channel in an optical communications network comprising a master device and slave devices connected to the master device via optical fiber, the optical communications network being adapted to enable in-band communications, the out-of-band communication channel being intended to enable transmissions of signalling signals with respect to the in-band communications. The master device processes signalling signals transmitted by said slave devices without access restriction to the out-of-band communication channel; and upon detecting a collision between signalling signals transmitted by slave devices concurrently accessing the out-of-band communication channel, the master device initiates a temporary time-slotted access to the out-of-band communication channel, so as to restrict access to the out-of-band communication channel by time slot distribution among slave devices likely to concurrently access the out-of-band communication channel using carrier wavelengths substantially identical as those having involved the detected collision.

A network component comprising a generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) control plane controller configured to implement a method comprising transmitting a message to at least one adjacent control plane controller, wherein the message comprises a Type-Length-Value (TLV) indicating Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) information, wherein the TLV comprises a Node Attribute TLV, a Link Set TLV, or both, and wherein the TLV further comprises at least one sub-TLV indicating additional RWA information. A method comprising communicating an open shortest path first (OSPF) link state advertisement (LSA) message comprising a TLV with at least one sub-TLV to a GMPLS control plane controller, wherein the TLV comprises a Node Attribute TLV, a Link Set TLV, or both, and wherein the TLV further comprises at least one sub-TLV indicating RWA information.

A high capacity node includes a plurality of receiver sections and a plurality of transmitter sections; and an electrical switching fabric between the plurality of receiver sections and the plurality of transmitter sections, wherein each of the plurality of receiver sections and the plurality of transmitter sections interface the electrical switching fabric at a full signal level and the electrical switching fabric is configured to perform flow switching on the full signal level between respective receiver sections and transmitter sections, and wherein the plurality of receiver sections, the plurality of transmitter sections, and one or more stages of the electrical switching fabric are implemented in one or more optoelectronic integrated circuits.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a service transmission method and a device and a system for implementing the method. The method includes: recognizing a type of a received client service, encapsulating an OTN service, and generating an OTN signal frame or a lower order ODU; querying a tag forwarding base to acquire forwarding information of the OTN signal frame or the lower order ODU; acquiring tag information, and inserting the tag information into an overhead of the OTN signal frame or the lower order ODU; and forwarding the OTN signal frame according to the forwarding information. Therefore, in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the forwarding and the transmission of the service may be performed in an OTN plane only, thereby reducing hardware modules of an MPLS plane.