Generic Status Portal for ONT Management via OMCI
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Solution Overview
Problem
Network maintenance and monitoring are complicated due to the need for separate interfaces for different management domains in Network Edge and Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) devices, making it difficult to access and collect status and performance monitoring information across multiple domains within a single device.
Innovation Solution
A Generic Status Portal (GSP) is implemented within the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) to provide access to status information from non-OMCI management domains via the OMCI interface, using a Status Document Table in XML format to consolidate and manage status information from multiple domains.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate interfaces are used for different management domains in CPE devices, then each domain can be managed independently with its own interface technology, but the complexity of collecting status and performance monitoring information across multiple domains increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Generic Status Portal (GSP) as an intermediary component that sits between different management domains and the OMCI interface. The GSP collects status and performance monitoring information from multiple non-OMCI management domains and translates it into OMCI format, allowing the OLT to access information from all domains through a single standardized interface without requiring separate interfaces for each domain
Solution Approach 2:
The GSP implements a universal interface that can access status information from multiple different management domains (SNMP, NETCONF, RESTCONF, etc.) through a single OMCI interface. This multi-functional portal consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate interfaces into one unified access point, reducing complexity while maintaining adaptability to different domain-specific technologies
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple management systems with different interface technologies are implemented in CPE devices, then each management domain can use its native interface technology, but the difficulty of maintaining and monitoring the device increases
Solution Approach 1:
The GSP acts as a mediator that translates between different management domain interface technologies and the standardized OMCI interface. Network support personnel interact with a single OMCI interface through the GSP, which automatically handles the complexity of translating requests to the appropriate native interface technology for each management domain, simplifying maintenance operations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the management function into distinct components: the GSP handles domain-agnostic status collection and translation, while each management domain maintains its own native interface technology. This segmentation allows each domain to operate independently with its optimized interface technology while presenting a unified simplified interface to the OLT
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AI summary
An apparatus comprising a Generic Status Portal (GSP) configured to grant access to a Managed Entity (ME) via an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) Management and Control Interface (OMCI), wherein the ME comprises status information about a non-OMCI management domain at the ONT. Also included is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising initializing an ONT ME, adding status information associated with a managed function to the ONT ME, indicating a status information update of the ONT ME, and providing the status information via an OMCI. Included is a method comprising providing status and performance monitoring (PM) information from an ONT via an OMCI at the ONT, wherein the status and PM information is associated with at least one managed function instance of at least one non-OMCI domain.