Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab-Rahman and Boonchuan Ng and Kasmiran Jumari
MATLABbased System for Centralized Monitoring and Self Restoration against Fiber Fault in FTTH
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2009
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International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/4094
https://publications.waset.org/vol/26
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
This paper presented a MATLABbased system named Smart Access Network Testing, Analyzing and Database (SANTAD), purposely for inservice transmission surveillance and self restoration against fiber fault in fibertothehome (FTTH) access network. The developed program will be installed with optical line terminal (OLT) at central office (CO) to monitor the status and detect any fiber fault that occurs in FTTH downwardly from CO towards residential customer locations. SANTAD is interfaced with optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) to accumulate every network testing result to be displayed on a single computer screen for further analysis. This program will identify and present the parameters of each optical fiber line such as the line&39;s status either in working or nonworking condition, magnitude of decreasing at each point, failure location, and other details as shown in the OTDR&39;s screen. The failure status will be delivered to field engineers for promptly actions, meanwhile the failure line will be diverted to protection line to ensure the traffic flow continuously. This approach has a bright prospect to improve the survivability and reliability as well as increase the efficiency and monitoring capabilities in FTTH.
Open Science Index 26, 2009