Summary of the invention
Embodiment of the present invention provides method, the Apparatus and system of setting up management and maintenance channel in a kind of passive optical network, user side equipment is installed after, exempting under the situation of soft, can set up management and maintenance channel automatically.
Set up the method for management and maintenance channel in a kind of passive optical network, this method comprises:
Receive the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues, described configuration information comprises first configuration information and second configuration information;
According to described first configuration information, set up the management and maintenance channel between optical line terminal and the Network Management Equipment;
Described second configuration information is issued to user side equipment, and described second configuration information is used to set up the management and maintenance channel between described user side equipment and the described optical line terminal.
A kind of device of setting up management and maintenance channel, this device comprises: maintenance channel is set up module, with establishment webmaster maintenance channel between the Network Management Equipment that is connected;
Receive information module, be used to receive the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues;
Information sending module communicates to connect with described reception information module, and the described configuration information that receives the information module reception is sent to user side equipment by the two-layer protocol corresponding with user side equipment.
A kind of device of setting up management and maintenance channel, this equipment comprises:
Receiver module is used to receive the two-layer protocol message that has configuration information that issues;
The conversion process module communicates to connect with described receiver module, and the two-layer protocol message that has managing configuration information that described receiver module is received is converted to the message that is applicable to user side equipment that has configuration information;
Sending module is connected with described conversion process module communication, sends the message that is applicable to user side equipment that has configuration information of described conversion process module converts.
A kind of communication system, this system comprises:
Network Management Equipment is connected with optical line terminal, and configuration information is sent to optical line terminal;
Optical line terminal, receive the configuration information that described Network Management Equipment issues, according to first configuration information in the described configuration information create and described Network Management Equipment between management and maintenance channel, and second configuration information in the described configuration information sent to user side equipment;
User side equipment, described second configuration information that user side equipment issues according to described optical line terminal is set up the management and maintenance channel between user side equipment and the optical line terminal, forms the webmaster maintenance channel so that Network Management Equipment and optical line terminal, optical line terminal are connected communication with management and maintenance channel between the user side equipment.
The technical scheme that provides by the invention described above execution mode as can be seen, embodiment of the present invention is got through by making between optical line terminal and the user side equipment the automatic configuration of finishing the management and maintenance channel of user side equipment by different two-layer protocol (as two-layer protocols such as OAM, OMCI, BPDU).Owing to adopt different two-layer protocols to get through the interface that management and maintenance channel can finely be applied to different equipment, have more flexibility and use more convenient.Solve existing some two-layer protocol and do not supported Extended Protocol, can not get through the shortcoming of maintenance channel, this method also has: 1. reduction equipment is installed the soft cost, gets through the maintenance channel of user side equipment automatically, reduced the complexity that new equipment is installed, the customer satisfaction of raising; 2. need not the situ configuration data, reduced the probability that configuration data is made mistakes, the speed of raising equipment installation simultaneously; 3. more exchange device is simple, need not the field reconfigurable data, reduces maintenance cost.
Embodiment
Embodiment of the present invention provides the method for setting up management and maintenance channel in a kind of passive optical network automatically, Apparatus and system, the OLT equipment (optical line terminal) that its essence is local side receives the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues, get through with the Network Management Equipment that is connected between management and maintenance channel, OLT equipment by with install after user side equipment (the optical network unit ONU equipment that uses in the FTTB form that the small dimension user side equipment is meant generally that Fiber To The Building of small dimension of user side, as: can be the household unit SFU type ONU equipment of living alone, home gateway unit HGU type ONU equipment, the single cell S BU of trade company type ONU equipment, at least a in many trade companies unit MTU type ONU equipment etc.) adopt corresponding two-layer protocol (using different two-layer protocols) to carry out mutual according to using different networks, and the managing configuration information that is used for the user side equipment use that will dispose on the Network Management Equipment of local side is handed down to user side equipment by OLT equipment, user side equipment is then according to the described managing configuration information of receiving, get through the management and maintenance channel (maintenance channel between user side equipment and the OLT equipment) of user side equipment, and make the snmp management protocol validation, the Network Management Equipment that the management and maintenance channel (maintenance channel between OLT equipment and the user side equipment) of management and maintenance channel (maintenance channel between OLT equipment and the Network Management Equipment) by the local side side of getting through and the user side of getting through forms local side is directly to the webmaster maintenance channel of user side equipment, and this method is specifically got through the flow process of management and maintenance channel and seen step 1 among Fig. 4~4.Behind user side equipment installation and electrifying startup, finish automatically alternately between the OLT equipment of local side and the user side equipment, saved needs the staff to arrive on-the-spot configuration, debug process to user side equipment in the past, has saved manpower greatly.
Illustrate that with the example of MDU equipment the process of getting through of said method has been finished the plug and play (Plug﹠amp of MDU equipment in practice as user side equipment; Play), make and finish following configuration effort between local side OLT and the MDU equipment automatically:
Configuration bottom passage (mainly being Management VLAN), startup 3 layer interfaces;
The managing I P (3 layer interface IP of Management VLAN) of this machine of configuration MDU equipment;
The configuring static route is used for transmitting with the flow of server, mainly is default gateway;
Configuration Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP parameter is as snmp group name, snmp trap server JP address etc.;
After above-mentioned configuration, can finish getting through of webmaster maintenance channel between local side webmaster and the MDU equipment, the local side webmaster can carry out follow-up configuration and management to MDU equipment by the webmaster maintenance channel of getting through.
For ease of understanding, describe below in conjunction with drawings and the specific embodiments.
Embodiment one
Present embodiment provides a kind of method that realizes setting up automatically the management and maintenance channel between webmaster and the user side equipment, this method can be in networks such as passive optical network PON (see figure 3), automatically get through the management and maintenance channel of user side equipment, thereby the Network Management Equipment by local side is configured, transfers survey to user side equipment, realize that it exempts from soft, this method specifically comprises as shown in Figure 5:
Step 11 increases user side equipment on the Network Management Equipment of local side, promptly the Network Management Equipment of local side is OLT equipment and user side equipment specified configuration information, and reserves the maintenance channel resource; Wherein, comprise first configuration information that is used for OLT equipment (optical line terminal) and second configuration information that is used for user side equipment (MDU equipment) in the configuration information;
Step 12, the OLT equipment (optical line terminal) of local side receives the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues, and OLT equipment is according to the management and maintenance channel of the professional interface channel between establishment OLT equipment of first configuration information in the configuration information and the Network Management Equipment as the local side side;
Step 13, undertaken alternately by corresponding two-layer protocol between OLT equipment and the user side equipment, after finishing range finding, registration and authentication to this user side equipment, second configuration information that is used for user side equipment in the described configuration information is issued to user side equipment, and user side equipment is set up the management and maintenance channel of user side according to described second configuration information;
Those skilled in the art should be able to understand, and also can second configuration information be issued to user side equipment by other host-host protocols between OLT equipment and the user side equipment.
Step 14, the management and maintenance channel of the local side side of getting through and the management and maintenance channel of user side form the webmaster maintenance channel of the Network Management Equipment leading subscriber side apparatus of local side.
After the webmaster maintenance channel was got through, local side can be finished the subsequent configuration of user side equipment is handled by this webmaster maintenance channel, as the configuration of voice VOIP three layer interfaces and various configuration servers etc.
Below each related in said method step is specifically described:
Wherein, in the step 11, the Network Management Equipment that increases user side equipment and be at local side is OLT equipment and user side equipment specified configuration information, and reservation maintenance channel resource, mainly be meant and in the treatment system of local side Network Management Equipment, increase an ONU equipment, generate in the treatment system of local side Network Management Equipment management object that should user side equipment, and this object is generated corresponding data, as the cipher authentication mode of ONU numbering, ONU, descriptor etc.; Second configuration information that the configure user side apparatus uses specifically comprises: the IP address that user side equipment uses, virtual LAN VLAN and default gateway, VLAN and default gateway can be reused with the VLAN and the default gateway of local side, promptly reuse with the VLAN of optical line terminal and the gateway of use.
Distribution to the IP address: the local side Network Management Equipment can be according to the identification information (as: information such as sequence number SN of passive optical network PON MAC Address and/or this user side equipment) of user side equipment, being the different IP addresses that different user side equipments distributes in the secondary IP address pond, can be that each user side equipment is specified different IP addresses separately by the user also perhaps.
In the step 12, when using networks of different type to be connected between terminal OLT device and the user side equipment, then use different two-layer protocols, as being passive optical network PON between terminal OLT device and the user side equipment, if PON uses ethernet passive optical network EPON, then corresponding two-layer protocol adopts Operations, Administration and Maintenance OAM agreement; As being gigabit passive optical network GPON between terminal OLT device and the user side equipment, then corresponding two-layer protocol adopts ONU management control interface OMCI agreement, be appreciated that, according to using different EPONs, then should select the two-layer protocol corresponding, not cause any restriction because of a certain concrete two-layer protocol with this network.
Below with the get through process (see figure 6) of concrete application scenarios, the method for present embodiment is described further the management and maintenance channel of user side equipment:
OLT equipment is at local side, and MDU equipment is at user side, and is general in the corridor of residential block, and the PON of the OLT equipment of local side finishes the connection of OLT with the physical channel between the MDU by the MDU of optical splitter to user side.
The process of getting through of initial physical passage under this scene is described below.
1. in the OLT side, the user increases MDU equipment in the PON of correspondence side;
2. in the OLT side, the user uses the IP address, manages with VLAN and default gateway by the management of the MDU equipment that the Network Management Equipment configuration that is connected with this OLT equipment is connected with this OLT equipment, wherein, the management of MDU equipment can be reused with Management VLAN, the default gateway of OLT with VLAN, default gateway;
3. after the MDU device power starts, with OLT by PON protocol interaction (EPON is by the MPCP agreement, and GPON is by the PLOAM agreement), finish range finding, registration, the authentication of MDU equipment;
4. after OLT receives logon message, give MDU equipment (, therefore can adopt MDU equipment mark (as MDU PON MAC, SN etc.) information to come to be the different IP address of different MDU devices allocation) by the automatic allocation manager IP of the Network Management Equipment address that this OLT equipment connects owing to be the P2MP shared link between OLT and the MDU equipment;
OLT automatically connect create on the EPON mouth of Network Management Equipment with the Network Management Equipment that is connected between professional interface channel (the webmaster maintenance channel of local side side can be after OLT equipment receives the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues as the webmaster maintenance channel of local side side, set up according to first configuration information at OLT equipment in the configuration information), the management and maintenance channel of OLT side is got through, getting through of webmaster maintenance channel between OLT and the Network Management Equipment is not subjected to the influence that whether the webmaster maintenance channel is got through or what opportunity gets through between OLT and the MDU, according to the difference of concrete configuration, also can be chosen in the webmaster maintenance channel of getting through other opportunity between OLT and the Network Management Equipment in the reality;
5. (EPON is by the OAM agreement to OLT by the PON management agreement, GPON is by the OMCI agreement, if other EPONs can also adopt corresponding two-layer protocol), management ip address, Management VLAN, the default gateway information of MDU equipment is handed down to MDU equipment;
6. in the MDU device parses PON management agreement message behind the managing I P/VLAN/ default gateway information, create three layer interfaces according to managing I P/ default gateway information, and three layer interfaces are tied on the Management VLAN, get through the maintenance channel of MDU equipment, simultaneously with SNMP relevant parameter configuration take-effective, the management and maintenance channel of getting through with local side forms the local side the got through webmaster maintenance channel to MDU equipment, and promptly terminal OLT device is got through the maintenance channel between the up going port that the down going port that inserts user side MDU equipment and this OLT equipment connects Network Management Equipment automatically;
7. by getting through the webmaster maintenance channel, the Network Management Equipment of local side can directly dispose the subsequent configuration information of MDU equipment, as voice VOIP three layer interfaces, various configuration server (as NTP/SYSLOG server address or the like).
Be that example describes with MDU equipment as user side equipment among the embodiment, but user side equipment is not constituted any restriction with MDU equipment, the user side equipment that is applied in other type of user side in practice all can adopt said method carry out the getting through of webmaster maintenance channel (described user side equipment can for: at least a in the equipment such as the household unit SFU type of living alone ONU, home gateway unit HGU type ONU, the single cell S BU of trade company type ONU, the unit MTU type ONU of many trade companies).
Embodiment two
As shown in Figure 7, it is a plurality of also having user side equipment in the reality, and the application scenarios that a plurality of user side equipments adopt the multi-stage cascade state to use, present embodiment describes the management and maintenance channel process of getting through of the user side equipment of this multi-cascade, specifically gets through step and sees Fig. 8:
Step 21, the Network Management Equipment specified configuration information of local side (comprises first configuration information and second configuration information that is used for user side equipment of the OLT equipment that is used for optical line terminal, and reserves the maintenance channel resource;
Step 22, undertaken alternately by corresponding two-layer protocol between the OLT equipment of local side and the described user side equipment, specifically be afterbody equipment by user side through intergrade equipment to first order equipment (the directly user side equipment that is connected with terminal OLT device) transmission bridge protocol data unit B PDU message; The BPDU message that has devices'physical locations information at different levels that first order equipment will be received is encapsulated in the two-layer protocol message with the mutual corresponding use of local side and is sent to terminal OLT device, finishes range finding, registration and authentication to user side equipment;
Terminal OLT device receives the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues, and according to first configuration information in the configuration information, creates the management and maintenance channel of professional interface channel as the local side side between OLT equipment and the Network Management Equipment;
Step 23, the OLT equipment of described local side is sent to user side equipment with second configuration information that is used for user side equipment in the described configuration information, and described second configuration information that user side equipment issues according to local side is got through the management and maintenance channel of user side; The two-layer protocol message that specifically is the described managing configuration information of encapsulation that the terminal OLT device of receiving issued by the first order equipment of user side is converted to the BPDU message, the described BPDU message that is converted to is sent to afterbody equipment through each intergrade equipment, get through the management and maintenance channel of user side equipment step by step, described getting through step by step is after the first order is got through, just can get through the second level, analogize in proper order, until the user side equipment of getting through afterbody;
Step 24, the described local side side management maintenance channel of getting through and the management and maintenance channel of described user side form the webmaster maintenance channel of the direct leading subscriber side apparatus of Network Management Equipment of local side.
Below with in the reality to the process of getting through automatically of the management and maintenance channel of the MDU equipment of multi-stage cascade, the method for present embodiment is described further:
Present embodiment mainly is to consider under the multi-stage cascade scene, the method that the MDU plant maintenance passage of cascade under the first order MDU equipment is got through automatically, key is the conversion of carrying out between BPDU message and the OAM message, and between OLT and the Network Management Equipment webmaster maintenance channel get through identical with embodiment one:
1. MDU2 equipment initially power on finish after, can send the BPDU messages to two GE mouths of higher level's MDU equipment;
2. equipment captures on the CPU of this equipment after receiving the BPDU message of MDU2 equipment, and the physical location information (i.e. this MDU1 devices'physical locations information) of additional cascade sends the BPDU message then to up going port in the BPDU message;
3. MDU1 equipment is after receiving the BPDU message of MDU2 equipment, with this BPDU message capturing to the CPU of MDU1 equipment, and in this BPDU message additional self physical location information, then the BPDU message is sent to up going port;
4. MDU0 equipment is after receiving the BPDU message of MDU1 equipment, with this BPDU message capturing to the CPU of MDU0 equipment, and in this BPDU message additional self physical location information, the payload TOPO descriptor of BPDU is extracted, be encapsulated in the PON management agreement message of communicating by letter with local side OLT (and if be the EPON network between local side, then adopt the OAM agreement, and if be the GPON network between local side, then adopt the OMCI agreement), send to the OLT side through the PON up going port;
5. after OLT receives logon message, by with Network Management Equipment that this OLT equipment is connected in automatically from the management ip address pond (being exclusively used in IP address pool) that management MDU equipment uses into the MDU devices allocation IP address of management, be the automatic allocation manager IP of each MDU equipment address, and pass through the OLT equipment that connected this IP address, management are bundled in the PON management agreement message with the default gateway information of VLAN, ONU, issue MDU0 equipment;
6. MDU0 equipment is converted to the BPDU message with PON management agreement message, and the BPDU message is sent MDU1 equipment, and MDU1 equipment is forwarded to MDU2 equipment with the BPDU message; Wherein to be converted to the conversion process of BPDU message mainly be that the two-layer protocol message head that removes earlier in the message (is a PON management agreement heading to PON management agreement message, if EPON management agreement message or GPON management agreement message, then be OAM or OMCI heading), add the heading of BPDU then in quiet lotus message front, and fill necessary BPDU header, after the conversion, comprise configuration management information in the BPDU message to MDU equipment at different levels;
7. behind the managing I P/VLAN/ acquiescence network management information in the managing configuration information of MDU2 device parses in the BPDU message, create three layer interfaces according to managing I P/ acquiescence network management information, and three layer interfaces are tied on the Management VLAN, on the basis that MDU0 equipment, MDU1 plant maintenance passage are got through, get through the maintenance channel of MDU2 equipment, simultaneously with SNMP relevant parameter configuration take-effective, the maintenance channel that maintenance channel that the local side side gets through and user side equipment are got through forms the webmaster maintenance channel of local side Network Management Equipment leading subscriber side apparatus;
8. by described webmaster maintenance channel, webmaster can dispose the subsequent configuration information of MDU2 equipment, as voice VOIP three layer interfaces, various configuration server (as NTP/SYSLOG server address etc.).
Getting through in the method for the embodiment of the invention,, can finish getting through of MDU initial maintenance passage by other two-layer protocol message or the initial maintenance channel configuration information of three layer protocol messages carrying MDU for the way to manage of non-XPON.
Embodiment three
As shown in Figure 9, present embodiment provides a kind of device 101 of setting up management and maintenance channel, and this device can be used in local side, gets through the webmaster maintenance channel of leading subscriber side apparatus alternately automatically as optical line terminal and user side equipment, specifically comprises:
Receive information module 102, be used to receive the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues;
Maintenance channel is set up module 103, according to first configuration information in the configuration information, and the management and maintenance channel between establishment and the Network Management Equipment;
Information sending module 104, communicate to connect with described reception information module, second configuration information that is used for user side equipment in the described configuration information with the reception of reception information module is sent to user side equipment, as can this second configuration information being sent to user side equipment by the two-layer protocol corresponding with user side equipment.
As shown in figure 10, wherein, described information sending module 104 specifically comprises: protocol adaptation module 105, and according to the network of communicating by letter that is connected between this equipment 101 and the user side equipment, select two-layer protocol and the described user side equipment corresponding to carry out alternately with this network.Use the PON network to be connected communication as between: this equipment and the user side equipment,, then select to use the OAM agreement if the PON network is the EPON network, if use the GPON network to connect communication, selection use OMCI agreement then.
Embodiment four
As shown in figure 11, present embodiment provides the another kind of device 201 of realizing getting through automatically the management and maintenance channel between webmaster and the user side equipment, and this device can be used in user side, and the first order equipment as directly being connected with terminal OLT device specifically comprises:
Receiver module 202 is used to receive the two-layer protocol message that has configuration information that optical line terminal issues;
Conversion process module 203 communicates to connect with described receiver module, and the two-layer protocol message that has configuration information that described receiver module is received is converted to the BPDU message that has configuration information;
Sending module 204 is connected with described conversion process module communication, sends the BPDU message that has configuration information of described conversion process module converts to the next stage equipment that is connected with this equipment.
Embodiment five
As shown in figure 12, present embodiment provides a kind of communication system, and this system specifically comprises:
At least one Network Management Equipment, at least one optical line terminal and at least one user side equipment;
Described Network Management Equipment is connected communication with optical line terminal, optical line terminal is connected communication by network with described user side equipment;
Optical line terminal receives the configuration information that Network Management Equipment issues, according to the management and maintenance channel between establishment of first configuration information in the described configuration information and the Network Management Equipment;
Optical line terminal adopt with user side between connect the corresponding two-layer protocol of network second configuration information in the described configuration information be sent to user side equipment, user side equipment is set up management and maintenance channel between user side equipment and the optical line terminal according to described second configuration information;
The management and maintenance channel of the user side between the management and maintenance channel of the local side side between the Network Management Equipment of described foundation and the optical line terminal and the optical line terminal of described foundation and the user side equipment is connected communication and forms the directly webmaster maintenance channel of the described user side equipment of management of Network Management Equipment.The network topology structure of this system can be referring to system shown in Figure 3 in the reality.
At user side equipment for two or more and when being in the cascade state, just form system as shown in figure 13, the topological structure of this system can be referring to system shown in Figure 7 in the reality, this system can realize the getting through step by step of a plurality of user side equipments of cascade state, the process of specifically getting through can be referring to the process of among the embodiment two user side equipment of multi-stage cascade being got through, superfluous no longer one by one herein telling.
In sum, the method of the maintenance channel of user side equipment is set up in the realization of the embodiment of the invention automatically, can automatic foundation the in back be installed at user side equipment and get through the webmaster maintenance channel that this equipment is managed, make user side equipment after installation, follow-up configuration and maintenance channel are got through process by finishing automatically under optical line terminal and the user side equipment interaction mode, realized exempting from soft, make to the accent of user side equipment survey more convenient, reduce the configuration error rate, more exchange device is simpler, save manpower greatly, reduced the cost of safeguarding.
Above-described each embodiment is for technical scheme of the present invention being described, not having the orbution of front and back between each embodiment that the sequence number because of each embodiment does not cause restriction.And each embodiment only is the preferable embodiment of the present invention; but protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto; anyly be familiar with those skilled in the art in the technical scope that the present invention discloses, the variation that can expect easily or replacement all should be encompassed within protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the protection range of claim.