Optical transceiver performance monitoring and alarming systems and methods

摘要

Performance monitoring (PM); optical layer operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P); and alarming are provided in optical transceivers, such as multi-source agreement (MSA)-defined modules. The present disclosure provides an optical transceiver defined by an MSA agreement with integrated PM and alarming for carrier-grade operation. The integration preserves the existing MSA specifications allowing the optical transceiver to operate with any compliant MSA host device. Further, the host device can be configured through software to retrieve the PM and alarming from the optical transceiver. The optical transceiver can include XFP, XPAK, XENPAK, X2, XFP-E, SFP, SFP+, 300-pin, and the like. The optical transceiver is configured to frame incoming signals to provide overhead and FEC. The transceiver provides access to all alarms in ITU-T G.709, all Tandem Connection Monitoring (TCM) bytes in G.709, far end monitoring as specified in G.709, loopbacks, historical and real-time PM values, and the like.

主权项

1. A multi-source agreement-defined optical transceiver comprising integrated performance monitoring and alarming for carrier-grade operation, comprising:
circuitry configured to provide framing and forward error correction within the multi-source agreement-defined optical transceiver while preserving existing multi-source agreement specifications; circuitry configured to process overhead based on the framing and the forward error correction to provide performance monitoring and alarming while preserving existing multi-source agreement specifications; and a plurality of registers operable to store performance monitoring data and alarming data; wherein the circuitry configured to process overhead is further configured to store the performance monitoring data and alarming data in the plurality of registers; and wherein the plurality of registers are utilized for binning of real-time and historical performance monitoring data.