Automatically provisioning optical network terminal (ONT) services to paired optical line terminal (OLT) devices

A method for automatically provisioning optical network terminal (ONT) services onto a protection pair of active and standby optical line terminal (OLT) devices in a broadband network, comprising:

• obtaining global setting information for the broadband network;
• accessing raw data for ONT services provided to a user;
• transforming the raw data into a normalized and consistent format;
• generating a template for the transformed data;
• and
• pushing the global setting information and template onto the OLT devices to automatically synchronize a configuration of each OLT to allow the standby OLT to act as the active OLT in an event of failure of an original active OLT.

A system comprising:

• a broadband network;
• an optical network terminal (ONT) in a user location providing access and services to the user from the broadband network;
• a protection pair of active and standby optical line terminal (OLT) devices in a provider location of the broadband network;
• and
• a network management system (NMS) obtaining global setting information for the broadband network, accessing raw data for ONT services provided to the user, transforming the raw data into a normalized and consistent format, generating a template for the transformed data, and pushing the global setting information and template onto the OLT devices to automatically synchronize a configuration of each OLT to allow the standby OLT to act as the active OLT in an event of failure of an original active OLT.