Background technology
A typical optical network system mainly is made up of OLT (optical line terminal), ODN (optical distribution network) and ONU (optical network unit).OLT is positioned at local side, is main control center, realizes the function of network management; ODN provides transmission medium for OLT is connected with data between the ONU, comprising optical cable and various optic components etc.; ONU is positioned at user side, is used for access user terminal.To do a summary to existing EPON know-why below.
Fig. 1 shows the network structure of FTTB (Fiber to The Building, FTTB)+LAN (Local Area Network, LAN (Local Area Network)).In the machine room of operator, by correlation technique, miscellaneous service is fused among the OLT, as the CATV business of wired TV, network TV IPTV, Plain Old Telephone Service PSTN, network service etc.Signal carries out the signal transmission from the OLT of local side through the optical fiber backbone network, arrives ONU by ODN (optical distribution network there is shown the optical branching device in the optical distribution network), and ONU gives different users with signal.
Fig. 2 shows the network structure of FTTN (Fiber to The Node, Fiber-To-The-Node)/FTTB+DSL " reconstruction of the old city town ".The network structure form of FTTN/FTTB+DSL and FTTB+LAN is more approaching." reconstruction of the old city town " takes into account the existing network line of incoming end, is the solution that a kind of optical-fiber network that can effectively reduce the front-end investment cost is transformed.
Fig. 3 shows the network structure of FTTH (Fiber To The Home, Fiber to the home).Fibre faceplate has been linked into the family parlor.And between fibre faceplate and ONU, normally adopting passive SC wire jumper to be connected, ONU separates signal respectively by a series of data, protocol conversion function according to different demands, use for different household equipments.
The use of optical network system, the copper cash that has reduced significantly in the signal transmission uses, and make transfer efficiency be greatly improved, yet it still has many improvements.For example, for ONU, existing ONU has following some shortcoming:
(1) small product size is excessive, takies user's space.
(2) may cause the wasting of resources.Most user only uses wherein one or more business, and other untapped functions will cause waste.
(3) cost of products is higher.Because of built-in various functional chips and numerous structural members, cause cost not low.
(4) fail to avoid fully the use of copper cash.Between from ONU to the subscriber equipment, still need to utilize copper cash to carry out the signal transmission, although this segment distance is limited, yet the copper cash of this final stage uses the main bottleneck that exactly becomes restriction optical network system performance, has significantly restricted user's service bandwidth.
Summary of the invention
The main technical problem to be solved in the present invention is, a kind of active optical cable is provided, and it can replace the ONU in the existing network system, can give full play of the performance of optical network system.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the present invention has adopted following technical scheme:
A kind of active optical cable, comprise the cable body, described cable body comprises the light transmission cable, is connected the light joint of described light transmission cable one end, and is connected the described light transmission cable other end, wherein contains the opto-electronic conversion joint of electrooptical device and signal processing chip.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described active optical cable also comprises and the adaptive adapter that is connected of described opto-electronic conversion joint.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described adapter and described cable body are the physical separation setting.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described adapter comprises a kind of interface in RJ11 interface, RJ45 interface, RF radio frequency interface and the WLAN interface at least.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described adapter comprises one or more RJ11 interfaces, one or more RJ45 interface, one or more RF radio frequency interface, one or more WLAN interface, perhaps comprises one or more RJ11 interfaces, one or more RJ45 interface, one or more RF radio frequency interface and one or more WLAN interface.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described light transmission cable comprises two, and one another is the light-receiving cable for light sends cable, and described electrooptical device is ROSA device and TOSA device.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described smooth joint is the twin-core fiber connector.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described light transmission cable is a transmitted in both directions optical cable, and described electrooptical device is the BOSA device.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described smooth joint is a single fiber-optic connector.
In an embodiment of the present invention, described opto-electronic conversion joint is provided with power lead and the power taking interface that is connected with described power lead.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows:
1, the present invention proposes a kind of novel optical-fiber network transmission product, as a kind of cable series products, the use of active optical cable of the present invention will make the thorough light pathization in whole Network Transmission path, the light signal that sends from OLT, through trunk optical fiber, arrive active optical cable of the present invention again, the ustomer premises access equipment that can go directly, thus thoroughly avoid the use of copper cash, the optical network system performance no longer is subjected to the copper cash restriction, thereby can improve user's service bandwidth significantly.
2, active optical cable of the present invention is flexible in use.Because main body is an optical cable, the volume of entire product is little, and cost is low, can be according to the flexible cabling of user's needs, and it is more succinct to connect up.The user has need promptly can utilize this product access optical-fiber network, need not then can remove this product, abandons inserting.Make flexible to the access of optical-fiber network.When the FTTB reconstruction of the old city town, do not had redundant space in the data cross-connecting box in the machine room of sub-district and arranged ONU equipment more in addition, this moment, the product of this programme was little because of small product size, can adapt to this application very flexibly.
3, functional configuration freedom, flexible.Active optical cable of the present invention, when the user only needs basic function, can satisfy the basic optical-fiber network demand of user fully, as Ethernet function or CATV function etc., save the increase of the user access networks cost that brings because of function waste, also reduced the wasting of resources simultaneously.And when the user has more demands, can carry out the expansion of function or interface neatly by adapter again.It is more free, flexible to make that the user uses the configuration of the function of optical network system.
Embodiment
In conjunction with the accompanying drawings the present invention is described in further detail below by embodiment.
Fundamental purpose of the present invention provides a kind of active optical cable (Active Optical Cable, be called for short AOC), this active optical cable, comprise the cable body, the cable body comprises the light transmission cable, be connected the light joint of light transmission cable one end, and be connected the light transmission cable other end, wherein contain the opto-electronic conversion joint of electrooptical device and signal processing chip.Utilize this active optical cable, can substitute the copper wire access of the final stage in the existing optical network system, and can make light signal directly be linked into user terminal, improved user's service bandwidth greatly, thereby really given play to the performance of optical network system.
Embodiment one:
As shown in Figure 4, the active optical cable of present embodiment, light transmission cable in its cable body, adopt two optical fiber designs, wherein an optical fiber is responsible for Data Receiving (light-receiving cable), another responsible data transmissions (light transmission cable), the end that the light transmission cable connects the light joint is called front end, and is corresponding, and the other end (end that connects the opto-electronic conversion joint) is called the rear end.The light joint of front end is the twin-core fiber connector, and it mainly is to be used for being linked into optical interface (optical interface for example is positioned at panels such as patch panel, fibre faceplate), obtains the light signal that comes from OLT so that be linked into optical-fiber network; The opto-electronic conversion joint of rear end then mainly is responsible for opto-electronic conversion, as can see from Figure 4, is provided with in the opto-electronic conversion joint and is responsible for ROSA (optical fiber receive module), TOSA (light emission component) device that photoelectricity is changed mutually.The tail end of opto-electronic conversion joint is an electric connector, and it can directly insert in the various devices such as computer or switch, for subscriber equipment provides signal transfer functions.
During work, the light joint of active optical cable front end is linked into optical interface, thereby is linked into the local side of optical network system; The opto-electronic conversion joint of active optical cable rear end (electric connector of tail end) is linked into user terminal.Up as the light-receiving direction with light signal to the local side of optical network system, descending with the local side of optical signals optical network system as the light transmit direction.In the light-receiving direction, the electric signal of user terminal carries out opto-electronic conversion by the ROSA device in the arrival of the electric connector in the opto-electronic conversion joint opto-electronic conversion joint and becomes light signal, light signal through the light transmission cable (light-receiving cable) be transferred to the light joint, thereby from optical interface through Optical Fiber Transmission to local side.At the light transmit direction, the light signal of local side, arrive optical interface through optical fiber, active optical cable through being connected to optical interface is transferred to user terminal again, light signal is in active optical cable, be to carry out opto-electronic conversion from the light joint through the TOSA device light transmission cable (light transmission cable) the arrival opto-electronic conversion joint to become electric signal, the electric connector by opto-electronic conversion joint tail end arrives the user terminal that has inserted this electric connector again.
Except that electrooptical device, also be provided with signal processing chip in the opto-electronic conversion joint, for example can be voice signal, vision signal, Ethernet data processing or the like function so that the control function of one or more signals to be provided.The signal processing chip function can be configured as required, both can be independent ethernet control chip, voice control chip or the like.Can be the signal processing chip with multiple signal controlling such as ethernet signal, voice signals also, perhaps also can be several individual signal processing chip, for example combination of ethernet control chip, voice control chip.
Adaptive for realizing interface expansion or interface, the active optical cable of present embodiment, also provide can with the adaptive adapter that is connected of opto-electronic conversion joint, (interface in adapter left side is adapter inlet or adapter input port to the output port of adapter among the title figure, is the port that links to each other with AOC; The interface on adapter right side is adapter outlet or adapter output port, is the port that links to each other with user terminal; In this article, dated as not adding, when claiming adaptor interface, be meant the output port of adapter) can comprise one or more Ethernet interfaces, RJ45 interface for example, the RJ45 interface can directly insert in the equipment such as computer or switch, for user terminal provides internet function.One or more RJ11 interfaces also can be provided, one or more RF radio frequency interfaces perhaps are provided, one or more WLAN interfaces etc. perhaps are provided.The RJ11 interface can insert telephone exchange or between insert various speech ciphering equipments, provide various phonetic functions, as the VOIP phone etc.The WLAN interface can provide wireless lan function.The RF radio frequency interface then can provide the closed circuit connection of simulation of TV, transportation simulator video and audio frequency.
As shown in Figure 4, can external power supply be set, be active optical cable power supply at adapter.General, adapter and cable body are physically for separating setting.Certainly, the cable body also can need not adapter and work independently, when working independently, active optical cable can be directly by electric connector from the power taking of user terminal interface, power lead and the power taking interface that is connected with power lead also can be set in addition to insert power supply on the opto-electronic conversion joint.
Embodiment two:
As shown in Figure 5, the active optical cable of present embodiment, identical with embodiment one aspect the cable body, only be to distinguish to some extent on the adapter: embodiment one adopts and has the adapter of function along separate routes, can use to many subscriber equipmenies the signal allocation of AOC; And embodiment two adopts is the simplest scheme one to one, i.e. the inlet that AOC can only corresponding adapter, and user's multiple devices if desired uses simultaneously, and equipment such as router or switch need be installed voluntarily.When if a plurality of optical interface is perhaps arranged, also can insert AOC at different optical interfaces respectively, each bar AOC inserts the difference inlet of adapter more respectively.
Embodiment three:
As shown in Figure 6, the active optical cable of present embodiment, its adapter has multiple interfaces, and WLAN interface, RJ45 interface, RJ11 interface, RF radio frequency interface for example have been shown among Fig. 6.Fig. 6 exemplarily shows an interface to above every kind of interface, can understand, and the kind of interface is not limited to above various, and the quantity of each interface also is not limited to one.Because the existence of the multiple interfaces of adapter, corresponding, signal processing chip need have multiple Signal Processing ability, can possess the control function of multiple signals such as voice, video, Ethernet simultaneously.
Embodiment four:
As shown in Figure 7, the active optical cable of present embodiment, similar substantially to the active optical cable of embodiment one, difference is: the active optical cable of present embodiment has the connector of independent power taking.As described in preceding embodiment one, two, three, the power taking of active optical cable, can utilize adapter to carry out, be that adapter is provided with can be from the power lead of power supply power taking, and active optical cable is by the directly power taking from adapter of power supply PIN pin of opto-electronic conversion joint, or by the electric connector of cable body with after user device interface is connected, directly from the subscriber equipment power taking.The power taking of cable body equally also can be provided with power lead as shown in Figure 7 in addition on the opto-electronic conversion joint, by the power taking interface power taking separately on the power lead.Electric connector can adopt the corresponding connector port according to the interface shape of equipment.
Embodiment five:
As shown in Figure 8, the active optical cable of present embodiment, its adapter is identical with the adapter of embodiment one, and promptly the output port of adapter is the same with embodiment one, be one or more same interfaces, for example RJ45 interface, RJ11 interface, RF radio frequency interface or WLAN interface or the like.And the cable body of cable body and embodiment one is similar substantially, the key distinction is: the light transmission cable of present embodiment cable body is a transmitted in both directions optical cable, can be responsible for the reception and the transmission of data simultaneously, accordingly, the electrooptical device that is provided with in the opto-electronic conversion joint no longer is ROSA device and TOSA device, but BOSA (bi-directional light assembly) device.
During work, the light joint of active optical cable front end (at this moment, the light joint is a single fiber-optic connector, perhaps abbreviates the joints of optical fibre as) is linked into optical interface, thereby is linked into the local side of optical network system; The opto-electronic conversion joint of active optical cable rear end (electric connector of tail end) is linked into user terminal.And no matter at the light transmit direction or in the light-receiving direction, light signal all is to transmit through the transmitted in both directions optical cable, carries out opto-electronic conversion by the BOSA device.
Embodiment six:
As shown in Figure 9, the active optical cable of present embodiment, its adapter is identical with the adapter of embodiment two, and promptly same what adopt is the simplest scheme one to one to adapter, just the inlet that AOC can only corresponding adapter.And the cable body of cable body and embodiment two is similar substantially, the key distinction is similar to the difference of embodiment one and embodiment five, i.e. difference is: the cable body among the embodiment two is become be the transmitted in both directions optical cable, corresponding with it, the electrooptical device that is provided with in the opto-electronic conversion joint no longer is ROSA device and TOSA device, but BOSA (bi-directional light assembly) device.
Embodiment seven:
As shown in figure 10, the active optical cable of present embodiment, its adapter is identical with the adapter of embodiment three, and the cable body of cable body and embodiment three is similar substantially, the key distinction is similar to the difference of embodiment one and embodiment five, i.e. difference is: the cable body among the embodiment three is become be the transmitted in both directions optical cable, corresponding with it, the electrooptical device that is provided with in the opto-electronic conversion joint no longer is ROSA device and TOSA device, but BOSA (bi-directional light assembly) device.
Embodiment eight:
As shown in figure 11, the active optical cable of present embodiment, the cable body of cable body and embodiment four is similar substantially, the key distinction is similar to the difference of embodiment one and embodiment five, i.e. difference is: the cable body among the embodiment four is become be the transmitted in both directions optical cable, corresponding with it, the electrooptical device that is provided with in the opto-electronic conversion joint no longer is ROSA device and TOSA device, but BOSA (bi-directional light assembly) device.
The present invention mainly provides a kind of active optical cable (AOC), this product, can substitute the copper cash use that the final stage in the present optical network system inserts fully, make the whole piece path from the local side to the user terminal be light-path, light signal can be transferred to user terminal always, thereby can improve user's service bandwidth greatly, the performance of optical network system is brought into play fully.And, adopt this active optical cable, no matter, still insert terminal user terminal for the OLT of optical network system, can keep existing configuration, need not to transform, thereby can save network rebuilding cost; Use this active optical cable, also can make up required light transmission path neatly as required, it is more convenient to use.
Above content be in conjunction with concrete embodiment to further describing that the present invention did, can not assert that concrete enforcement of the present invention is confined to these explanations.For the general technical staff of the technical field of the invention, without departing from the inventive concept of the premise, can also make some simple deduction or replace, all should be considered as belonging to protection scope of the present invention.