System and method for optical performance data collection
OwnerHarish Jayaram, Cengiz Aydin +2inventors
InventorsHarish Jayaram, Cengiz Aydin, Curtis Brownmiller, Michael U. Bencheck
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Abstract
A method, and optical network management system is provided for monitoring an optical transmission system, including detecting an error condition in an electrical domain of the optical transmission system, and collecting data associated with optical performance of one or more optical network elements in response to the detected electrical degradation. The collected data is used to determine whether the one or more of the optical network elements are a source of the electrical degradation.
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A method of monitoring an optical transmission system, the method comprising:
- detecting an error condition in an electrical domain of the optical transmission system;
- and
- collecting data associated with optical performance of one or more optical network elements in response to the detected electrical degradation, wherein the collected data is used to determine whether the one or more of the optical network elements are a source of the electrical degradation.
An optical network management system, comprising:
- means for detecting an error condition in an electrical domain of an optical transmission system;
- and
- means for collecting data associated with optical performance of one or more optical network elements in response to the detected electrical degradation, wherein the collected data is used to determine whether the one or more of the optical network elements are a source of the electrical degradation.
A computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions for monitoring an optical transmission system, the one or more sequences of one or more instructions include instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
- detecting an error condition in an electrical domain of the optical transmission system;
- and
- collecting data associated with optical performance of one or more optical network elements in response to the detected electrical degradation, wherein the collected data is used to determine whether the one or more of the optical network elements are a source of the electrical degradation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.