JP6088956B2 - Optical line wavelength measurement system and optical test apparatus - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an optical line wavelength measurement system and an optical test apparatus for monitoring a transmission wavelength from an ONU in a PON.

  Currently, with the increase in broadband services, the number of FTTH (Fiber To The Home) subscribers using optical fibers is rapidly increasing. In an optical access network from a telecommunications carrier building to a customer's home, a PON (Passive Optical Network) system that performs point-to-multipoint communication excellent in economic efficiency is widely used. The PON system has a PDS (Passive Double Star) type optical line configuration, and a basic optical fiber connected to an optical subscriber line terminal (OLT) in a communication carrier building, and the basic optical fiber. An optical splitter that splits an optical fiber into a plurality of optical fibers and a branch optical fiber that has a one-to-one correspondence with an optical network unit (ONU) in a subscriber's house.

  On the other hand, wireless cellular systems such as cellular phones also require a broadband and efficient wireless access network configuration due to explosive spread. In addition, in a radio access network, it is considered that a base station is separated into a signal processing unit (BBU: Base Band Unit) and an RF unit (RRH: Remote Radio Head) and is physically separated. In this BBU-RRH network, a single BBU can accommodate a plurality of RRHs. As a result, the BBUs required for each RRH can be collected in one place, and the operation / installation cost can be reduced and a highly coordinated operation among a plurality of RRHs is possible.

  As a configuration in which one BBU as described above accommodates a plurality of RRHs, a configuration in which a part of the optical fiber is shared instead of a point-to-point is considered. This is a PON configuration used in so-called FTTH. In the application of this PON, as a communication method, a branch is further introduced using a PON technology such as TDM-PON (Time Division Multiplexed-PON) or WDM-PON (Wavelength Division Multiplexed-PON) to lower the cost of introducing an optical fiber. It is considered. In particular, if a TWDM-PON using both WDM and TDM is used, each ONU and OLT can construct an efficient NW configuration in real time while taking an arbitrary wavelength, so that a very efficient network can be configured (for example, non- (See Patent Document 1).

  In this TWDM-PON, each ONU below the branch always communicates while changing the wavelength. For this reason, it is necessary to monitor whether each ONU is performing communication of the correct wavelength as needed.

D. Iida, et al. , “A proposal of Dynamic TWDM-PON for Mobile Radio Access Network”, APMP2013, TuA-3, 2013

  Since the wavelength of TWDM-PON always changes, unlike the conventional WDM-PON in which the wavelength setting is fixed, no wavelength-selective device is used in the transmission path such as a branch, so the upstream signal received by the OLT There are mixed signals from all lower ONUs, and the wavelengths of the signals emitted by the respective ONUs cannot be measured individually. It is necessary to individually measure whether each ONU below the branch is correctly set in wavelength or transmitting a signal having a correct wavelength.

  It is an object of the present invention to remotely measure the wavelength of an optical signal of each ONU whose transmission wavelength continues to change in a TWDM-PON system.

  The present invention relates to an optical test apparatus for a TWDM-PON system in which an OLT and a plurality of optical wavelength variable ONUs are connected by a branched optical transmission line, and an optical signal transmitted from each ONU to the OLT is transmitted to the optical transmission line. The wavelength of the input optical signal and the identification information of the transmission source of the optical signal are detected.

Specifically, the optical line wavelength measurement system according to the present invention is:
The optical splitter for branching a part of an optical signal transmitted from a plurality of slave units connected to a common master unit via a common optical splitter toward the master unit;
The optical signal branched by the optical splitter is received, the wavelength of the optical signal is detected, the identification information of the slave unit that is the transmission source of the optical signal is detected, and the wavelength of the optical signal and the slave unit of the transmission source are detected. An optical test apparatus for associating the identification information;
Is provided.

  In the optical line wavelength measurement system according to the present invention, the optical test apparatus acquires a combination of identification information and transmission wavelengths of the plurality of slave units from the master unit, and detects a transmission wavelength acquired from the master unit. It may be detected whether there is a difference between the transmission wavelength combined with the identified identification information and the detected wavelength.

Specifically, the optical test apparatus according to the present invention is:
A light receiving unit that receives a part of the optical signal transmitted from the plurality of slave units connected to the common master unit via the common optical splitter and branched to the optical splitter;
A wavelength specifying unit for specifying a wavelength of an optical signal received by the light receiving unit;
A signal processing unit that detects the identification information of the transmission source slave unit of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit, and associates the identified wavelength of the wavelength identification unit with the detected identification information of the slave unit of the transmission source;
Is provided.

  In the optical test apparatus according to the present invention, the signal processing unit acquires the transmission wavelengths of the plurality of slave units from the master unit, and is combined with the detected identification information among the transmission wavelengths acquired from the master unit. It may be detected whether or not there is a difference between the transmitted wavelength and the wavelength specified by the wavelength specifying unit.

In the optical test apparatus according to the present invention,
The wavelength specifying unit is an optical filter having a variable transmission wavelength,
The signal processing unit may detect the wavelength of the optical signal based on the transmission wavelength of the optical filter when the optical receiver receives the optical signal.

Specifically, the optical test method according to the present invention comprises:
A light receiving procedure for receiving a part of the optical signal transmitted from the plurality of slave units connected to the common master unit via the common optical splitter to the master unit and branched by the optical splitter;
The wavelength of the optical signal received in the light receiving procedure is specified, the identification information of the slave unit that is the transmission source of the optical signal received in the light reception procedure is detected, and the identification information of the detected slave unit that is the identified wavelength is detected. The signal processing procedure to associate,
In order.

In the optical test method according to the present invention,
A wavelength acquisition procedure for acquiring the transmission wavelengths of the plurality of slave units from the master unit further before the light receiving procedure,
In the signal processing procedure, it is determined whether or not there is a difference between the specified wavelength and the transmission wavelength of the slave unit that is the transmission source of the optical signal received in the light receiving procedure among the transmission wavelengths acquired from the master unit. Also good.

In the optical test method according to the present invention,
In the light receiving procedure, an optical signal that has passed through an optical filter having a variable transmission wavelength is received;
In the signal processing procedure, the wavelength of the optical signal may be detected based on the transmission wavelength of the optical filter when the optical signal is received.

  According to the present invention, in the TWDM-PON system, it is possible to remotely measure the wavelength of the optical signal of each ONU whose transmission wavelength continues to change.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the optical line wavelength measurement system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the optical test apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, this invention is not limited to embodiment shown below. These embodiments are merely examples, and the present invention can be implemented in various modifications and improvements based on the knowledge of those skilled in the art. In the present specification and drawings, the same reference numerals denote the same components.

  FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of an optical line wavelength measurement system according to this embodiment. The optical line wavelength measurement system according to the present embodiment includes an optical splitter 3-00 and an optical signal wavelength measurement device 10 that functions as an optical test apparatus. The optical splitter 3-00 branches a part of optical signals transmitted from the plurality of ONUs 5 connected to the common OLT 4 via the common optical splitter 3-00 to the OLT 4. The OLT 4 functions as a parent device, and the ONU 5 functions as a child device.

  1 is a BBU, 2 is an RRH, and 3 is a power splitter that distributes all light equally. Reference numeral 4 denotes an OLT (Optical Line Terminal) that constitutes a branch source base unit in the PON system, and 5 denotes an ONU (Optical Network Unit) that constitutes a branch destination slave unit in the PON system, similar to 4. Reference numeral 6 denotes an LC (Line Card) functioning as an optical transmission / reception unit installed in the OLT. Reference numeral 7 denotes a switch for distributing signals in order to process a plurality of signals from the upper network in parallel. If the BBU 1 processes only one signal instead of a plurality, the switch 7 is unnecessary. A switch 8 distributes a plurality of signals from the PON. 9 is an LC in the ONU. 8 is determined by the number of ONU LCs. If there are a plurality of LCs 9 of the ONU 5, the switch 8 is necessary, and if there is one LC9, the switch 8 is not necessary. Reference numeral 10 denotes an output optical signal wavelength measuring device of each ONU 5. Reference numeral 11 denotes a controller that links the optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 with the OLT 4 that controls communication. By the control through the controller 11, the optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 can analyze the contents from the received signal.

  The optical line wavelength measurement system according to the present embodiment includes an optical splitter 3-00 that inputs and outputs test light in an optical fiber between the OLT 4 and a plurality of ONUs 5 connected via an optical fiber transmission line, and an optical splitter. An optical signal wavelength measuring device 10 for measuring an optical fiber connected to a 3-00 test light input / output port is provided. A branch exists in the optical fiber line, and the ONUs 5 perform communication using different wavelengths. The optical signal wavelength measuring device 10 includes a wavelength tunable filter 12 that uses a wavelength that may be used by the ONU 5 as a transmission band, and changes the transmission band wavelength of the optical signal for the OLT 4 that each ONU 5 emits. To measure. Then, an identifier for identifying the ONU 5 that transmitted the signal is detected from the measured optical signal, and the detected identifier is associated with the transmission band wavelength set in the wavelength tunable filter 12 when the identifier is detected. Thus, it is detected at which wavelength the ONU 5 is creating a signal. Thereby, the optical line wavelength measurement system and the optical test apparatus according to the present embodiment detect an error in the set transmission wavelength of each ONU 5 in the variable wavelength branch line.

  Inside the LC 6 of the OLT 4 and the LC 9 of the ONU 5, there are provided a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit that can handle communication of various wavelengths. For example, a broadband wavelength tunable laser, or a broadband laser and a wavelength tunable filter for setting the wavelength can be used as the light emitting unit that can handle communication of various wavelengths. The light receiving unit can use a wavelength tunable filter that sets received light and light receivers of various wavelengths in the subsequent stage.

  Each LC 6 in the OLT 4 can communicate with light of an arbitrary wavelength. Each ONU 5 sets the transmission band wavelength of the wavelength variable filter in the ONU 4 according to the wavelength of the LC 6 of the partner OLT 4 to communicate with, and sets the wavelength of the optical signal to be output. A PON network can be configured virtually by wavelength. Each ONU 5 does not need to have a different wavelength, and a plurality of ONUs 5 can use the same wavelength, and access control is performed by a conventional TDM within a group of ONUs 5 of that wavelength. Thus, since WDM and TDM are used together, it is called TWDM-PON.

  The configuration of the optical signal wavelength measuring device 10 according to the present embodiment is shown in FIG. The optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 according to the present embodiment includes a light receiving unit 13, a wavelength specifying unit 12, and a signal processing unit 14. 12 is a wavelength tunable filter, 13 is a light receiving unit that converts an optical signal into an electrical signal, 14 is a signal processing unit that detects information identifying the ONU 5 that has emitted the signal, and 15 is a wavelength tunable filter 12. And a measuring instrument controller that manages the signal processing unit 14. The wiring from the measuring instrument controller 15 is connected to the controller 11 in the OLT 4. Thereby, the OLT 4 and the optical signal wavelength measuring device 10 are linked.

In the optical test method according to the present embodiment, the optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 sequentially executes a light receiving procedure and a signal processing procedure.
In the light receiving procedure, the light receiving unit 13 receives a part of the optical signal transmitted from the ONU 5 to the OLT 4 and branched by the optical splitter 3-00. At this time, the measuring instrument controller 15 notifies the signal processing unit 14 of the wavelength of the wavelength tunable filter 12 so that the wavelength of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13 can be known.
In the signal processing procedure, the signal processing unit 14 specifies the wavelength of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13, detects the identification information of the ONU 5 that is the transmission source of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13, and detects the specified wavelength and detection. The identification information of the transmission source ONU 5 is associated. Then, the signal processing unit 14 notifies the measuring instrument controller 15 of the set of the wavelength of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13 and the identification information. The measuring instrument controller 15 notifies the controller 11 of the set of the wavelength of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13 and the identification information. Thereby, OLT4 can grasp | ascertain the transmission wavelength of the upstream signal of each ONU5.

The optical test method according to the present embodiment may further include a wavelength acquisition procedure before the light receiving procedure. In the wavelength acquisition procedure, the measuring instrument control controller 15 acquires the transmission wavelength of each ONU 5 from the controller 11 and notifies the signal processing unit 14 of it.
In this case, in the signal processing procedure, the signal processing unit 14 specifies the wavelength of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13, and the optical signal received by the light receiving unit 13 out of the specified wavelength and the transmission wavelength acquired from the OLT 4. It is determined by comparing whether or not there is a difference between the transmission wavelength of the transmission source ONU 5. Then, the signal processing unit 14 notifies the determination result to the measuring instrument controller 15, and the measuring instrument control controller 15 notifies the determination result to the controller 11. Thereby, OLT4 can grasp | ascertain whether each ONU5 is transmitting the optical signal with an appropriate wavelength.

  In the signal processing procedure, the signal processing unit 14 may detect a wavelength difference obtained by the comparison. In this case, the signal processing unit 14 notifies the controller 11 of the wavelength difference via the measuring instrument controller 15. Thereby, OLT4 can grasp | ascertain how much the transmission wavelength of each ONU5 has shifted | deviated from the appropriate wavelength.

  When each ONU 5 in FIG. 1 outputs an upstream signal toward the OLT 4, the optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 receives the signal through the power splitter 3-00. Since signals 3-1 to 3-A in FIG. 1 are power splitters, the signals received by the optical signal wavelength measuring device 10 include all the signals of the ONUs 5 at different wavelengths.

  The optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 sweeps the wavelength tunable filter 12 when receiving a signal. The sweep range may be discontinuous or continuous as long as it can be set to a wavelength that can be taken by the optical signal output by each ONU 5 in the system of FIG. With this wavelength tunable filter 12, it is possible to extract and receive only a signal of a certain wavelength from signals in which various wavelengths of all ONUs 5 are mixed. When setting the tunable filter 12 with a certain wavelength as the transmission wavelength, the received signal is analyzed by the light receiving unit 13. The information for identifying each ONU 5 may be anything such as the MAC address of the ONU 5 or the LLID (Logical Link ID) assigned to each ONU 5 by the OLT 4. An identifier included in a signal transmission method used in the system may be used.

  The instrument controller 15 changes (sweeps) the set wavelength of the wavelength tunable filter 12 in various ways, causes the signal processing unit 14 to detect the identifier at each wavelength, and when the detected identifier and the identifier are detected. Are associated with the set wavelength of the wavelength tunable filter 12 and output. As a result, each ONU 5 can be associated with its set wavelength.

  From the above, it is possible to observe at which wavelength each ONU 5 outputs an optical signal with the optical signal wavelength measuring instrument 10 and the OLT 4 that are remotely located from the ONU 5. Even when a plurality of ONUs 5 communicate with each other at the same wavelength, since they are controlled by TDM, signals are not mixed at the same time. For this reason, it is preferable that the measuring instrument controller 15 acquires the transmission wavelength of each ONU 5 from the controller 11 at every time determined by TDM. It is also possible to distinguish those ONUs 5 in this way.

  It is possible to search for an ONU 5 that outputs light at a certain wavelength, and conversely, it is also possible to measure at which wavelength a certain ONU 5 emits light.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiment examples may be appropriately combined. For example, the present invention is not limited to the network between base stations of wireless terminals such as mobile phones, but can be applied to a fixed network.

  As described above, when the technology of the present invention is used, in the TWDM-PON in which the wavelength of each ONU 5 continues to change, the wavelength of each ONU 5 output optical signal is measured by the optical signal wavelength measuring device 10 and the OLT 4 that are remotely arranged. Is possible. By this method, the wavelength management of each ONU 5 can be performed, and it is possible to easily detect a failure or abnormality related to the wavelength, which contributes to efficient operation of the TWDM-PON.

  The present invention relates to a communication monitoring device, a communication monitoring method, and an optical line test system in an optical access network system. In particular, the present invention relates to a passive optical network (TWDM) in which a master optical communication device and a slave optical communication device perform 1 to N communication via an optical transmission line, and each optical communication device can freely change a communication wavelength. -PON: Time and Wavelength Division Multiplexing-Passive Optical Network), and branch line by wavelength / time division multiplexing that will lead to further development of communication networks such as future broadband, flexible, and integration of radio base stations It is possible to detect whether each communication station is using the set wavelength correctly in the situation where each communication station constantly changes the wavelength used by using the network, improving the reliability of the optical fiber network, and the communication service It can lead to improvement of quality.

1 BBU
2 RRH
3 Optical splitter 4 OLT
5 ONU
6 LC
7 Switch 8 Switch 9 LC
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Optical signal wavelength measuring device 11 Controller 12 Wavelength variable filter 13 Light-receiving part 14 Signal processing part 15 Measuring instrument control controller

Claims (8)

The optical splitter for branching a part of an optical signal transmitted from a plurality of slave units connected to a common master unit via a common optical splitter toward the master unit;
The optical signal branched by the optical splitter is received, the wavelength of the optical signal is detected, the identification information of the slave unit that is the transmission source of the optical signal is detected, and the wavelength of the optical signal and the slave unit of the transmission source are detected. An optical test apparatus for associating the identification information;
An optical line wavelength measurement system comprising: The optical test apparatus acquires a combination of identification information and transmission wavelengths of the plurality of slave units from the master unit, and a transmission wavelength combined with the detected identification information among the transmission wavelengths acquired from the master unit; Detect whether there is a difference with the detected wavelength,
The optical line wavelength measurement system according to claim 1. A light receiving unit that receives a part of the optical signal transmitted from the plurality of slave units connected to the common master unit via the common optical splitter and branched to the optical splitter;
A wavelength specifying unit for specifying a wavelength of an optical signal received by the light receiving unit;
A signal processing unit that detects the identification information of the transmission source slave unit of the optical signal received by the light receiving unit, and associates the identified wavelength of the wavelength identification unit with the detected identification information of the slave unit of the transmission source;
An optical test apparatus comprising: The signal processing unit acquires the transmission wavelengths of the plurality of slave units from the master unit, the transmission wavelength combined with the detected identification information among the transmission wavelengths acquired from the master unit, and the wavelength specifying unit Detect whether there is a difference with the specified wavelength,
The optical test apparatus according to claim 3. The wavelength specifying unit is an optical filter having a variable transmission wavelength,
The optical test apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the signal processing unit detects a wavelength of the optical signal based on a transmission wavelength of the optical filter when the optical receiver receives the optical signal. A light receiving procedure for receiving a part of the optical signal transmitted from the plurality of slave units connected to the common master unit via the common optical splitter to the master unit and branched by the optical splitter;
The wavelength of the optical signal received in the light receiving procedure is specified, the identification information of the slave unit that is the transmission source of the optical signal received in the light reception procedure is detected, and the identification information of the detected slave unit that is the identified wavelength is detected. The signal processing procedure to associate,
The optical test method which has in order. A wavelength acquisition procedure for acquiring the transmission wavelengths of the plurality of slave units from the master unit further before the light receiving procedure,
In the signal processing procedure, it is determined whether or not there is a difference between the identified wavelength and the transmission wavelength of the slave unit that is the transmission source of the optical signal received in the light receiving procedure among the transmission wavelengths acquired from the master unit.
The optical test method according to claim 6. In the light receiving procedure, an optical signal that has passed through an optical filter having a variable transmission wavelength is received;
The optical test method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein, in the signal processing procedure, the wavelength of the optical signal is detected based on a transmission wavelength of the optical filter when the optical signal is received.

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