The invention discloses a multipath switchable
optical fiber loop communication
system and method, the
system comprises node devices, each node device comprises an
optical fiber link entering the node device and an
optical fiber link not entering the node device, when a
single loop works, the optical
fiber link entering the node device is controlled to be communicated with a main loop, and when the
single loop works, the optical
fiber link entering the node device is controlled to be communicated with the main loop; an optical
signal passes through all node devices in the loop to form closed single-loop communication; when multiple loops work, in the sub-loops, the optical
fiber links which do not enter the node devices are controlled to be communicated with the main loop, and the optical fiber links which enter the node devices are controlled to be communicated with the sub-loops, so that optical signals pass through the node devices in the sub-loops to form closed sub-loop communication. And the main loop optical
signal skips the node equipment in the sub-loop to continuously keep closed main loop communication. According to the invention, automatic switching between the optical fiber single-ring topology and the optical fiber multi-ring topology is realized, fault equipment is replaced under the working condition of a parallel operation
system, and the robustness of the system is kept.