Effective and Open System for Wavelengths Monitoring

Abstract

Today there are very few open source optical network monitoring solutions available for network operators or optical paths users. Most of the available optical monitoring solutions are proprietary and single vendor solutions only (firmware). Even the existing software is often limited in functionality to one-domain homogeneous network environment only and extremely difficult to apply in many operators multi-domain heterogeneous environment. Unfortunately, network operators as well as users of optical paths (or client trails in SDH) can only successfully monitor and use wavelengths infrastructures spanning over multiple domains if they have efficient monitoring and fault detection tools available to them. In this paper we present an effective and open source tool for monitoring wavelengths. Our approach recognises and facilitates the ability of independent networks to set policies while facilitating the status and performance monitoring by users interested in optical paths connecting distributed resources.