Embodiments of this application disclose a board, an optical module, a MAC chip, a DSP, and an information processing method. The board in the embodiments of this application includes a media access control (MAC) chip, a digital signal processor (DSP), and an equalizer. The MAC chip is configured to send first information to the DSP at an optical network unit (ONU) online stage, where the first information includes a first ONU identifier. The DSP is configured to receive the first information, and determine a first reference equalization parameter, where the first reference equalization parameter is related to the first ONU identifier. The DSP is further configured to set an equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter.

A transmission pipe configuration method, including receiving a device address of a first network domain, a device address of a second network domain from, generating an identifier of a transmission pipe based on the device address of the first network domain and the device address of the second network domain, where the transmission pipe connects a first border transport device and a second border transport device, and sending to the first border transport device, the identifier of the transmission pipe and the device address that is of the second network domain and that corresponds to the transmission pipe. The identifier of the transmission pipe and the device address are used to generate a forwarding table of the first border transport device, the forwarding table indicating a forwarding relationship where service data is forwarded from the first network domain to the second network domain using the transmission pipe.

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 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.

Embodiments of this application disclose a board, an optical module, a media access control (MAC) chip, a digital signal processor (DSP), and an information processing method. The board in the embodiments of this application includes a MAC chip, a DSP, and an equalizer. The MAC chip is configured to send first information to the DSP at an optical network unit (ONU) online stage, where the first information includes a first ONU identifier. The DSP is configured to receive the first information, and determine a first reference equalization parameter, where the first reference equalization parameter is related to the first ONU identifier. The DSP is further configured to set an equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter.

A method to avoid sympathetic switches in path switching protection due to client protection switching includes monitoring a drop side Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) entity and a line side TCM entity for a connection, wherein the drop side TCM is provisioned between a drop port of the node and a second drop port of a corresponding node, and wherein the line side TCM entity is provisioned between a plurality of line ports of the node and a second plurality of line ports of the corresponding node; responsive to detecting defects in both the drop side TCM entity and the line side TCM entity on a working line, implementing path protection switching of the working line; and, responsive to detecting defects only in the drop side TCM entity, implementing path protection switching of the working line responsive to persistence of the defects.

A method of localizing a defect location and a method of identifying a cause of a defect in an optical transport network (OTN). The method of localizing a defect location in an OTN includes generating tandem connection monitoring (TCM) coordinates consisting of a TCM level and trail information of an optical data unit (ODU) based on a relationship between an OTN line card (LC) and the ODU in the OTN, localizing the defect location in the OTN by converting the TCM level to a segment on the TCM coordinates, and identifying a root cause using a defect identification algorithm that traces back the cause of the defect in an opposite direction to that in which the defect is propagated based on an OTN layer structure.

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 line card and a design method thereof, a communication control method and device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: configuring a plurality of functions of a plurality of pins in the line card according to a new standard signal definition table obtained by classifying a first standard signal definition table corresponding to a 10G EPON and a second standard signal definition table corresponding to an xGPON.

Systems and methods for Tandem Connection Monitor (TCM) control for the physical layer on Optical Transport Unit (OTU) ports provide the ability of the TCM status to directly control client laser state (on/off) so that protection engines and coordination between modules is not required. The systems and methods include receiving a specific defect such as a Tandem Connection Monitor (TCM) defect or a Server Signal Fail (SSF) defect from interface circuitry; propagating the TCM defect or the SSF defect from the interface circuitry to an interface associated with a modem including a physical port connected to a network; and selectively disabling a laser in the modem based on the specific defect, e.g., the TCM defect or the SSF defect from the interface circuitry.