Administration & Maintenance) information is one of important technologies for intelligent optical network (ION). This paper firstly analyses the OA&M requirements in ION
in comparison with these requirements in OTN. Then
focusing on three key issues (transmission techniques
process complexity and bandwidth occupation)
we discussed the difficulties in OA&M system implementation. Today’s solutions are compared. Based on this analysis
guidelines to implement OA&M system is presented
including multi-technology transmission
multi-layer process and multi-domain process. Finally