System and method for automatic discovery of optical cable route

A system for automatic discovery of an optical cable route in an optical transmission system, comprising:

• a local area network (LAN);
• a database server in direct communication with the LAN, the database server maintaining a database for storing information of physically deployed optical cable routes in the optical transmission system, the information of physically deployed optical cable routes including optical cable fiber core resources;
• an element management system (EMS) server in communication with the LAN to access and operate the database server;
• a client in communication with the LAN;
• a plurality of light source monitoring devices in communication with the LAN to transmit light source monitoring data to the EMS server for processing;
• and
• a plurality of optical power meter monitoring devices in communication with the LAN to transmit optical power meter monitoring data to the EMS server for processing,
• wherein the plurality of optical power meter monitoring devices are configured to automatically monitor optical power of receiving fibers in the optical cable and generate an optical power alarm when the optical power is beyond one of a plurality of predefined thresholds,
• wherein the EMS server is configured to determine a level of the optical power alarm based on the one of the plurality of predefined thresholds and the optical cable route with which the optical power alarm is related in real time when the EMS server receives the optical power alarm, and
• wherein the EMS server is configured to automatically search the database for available optical cable routes to provide options of available optical cable routes for real-time allocation of services in the optical transmission system.