Patent Application
20150071637
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of optical communications, and in particular, to a data processing method, related device, and system for an optical transport network.
An optical transport network (OTN) is a transport network based on a wavelength-division multiplexing technology and networking at an optical layer, and is a mainstream transport network technology at present. Due to explosive increase of Internet Protocol (IP, Internet Protocol) services transported on a network and other data services based on packet transport, requirements on a transmission capacity increase rapidly and continuously. With maturity and application of a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology and an optical amplifier (OA, Optical Amplifier) technology, a transport network is evolving into an optical transport network based on an optical networking technology. The emergence of a transport network based on the OTN gradually turns an intelligent optical network expected by people into reality and provides network operators and customers with a secure, reliable, cost-effective, customer-irrelevant, manageable, operable, and efficient new-generation optical transport platform. On the OTN, service data is first encapsulated into an optical payload unit (OPU, Optical Payload Unit) by using a certain encapsulation method, then mapped to an optical channel data unit (ODU, Optical channel Data Unit), and then mapped to an optical transport unit (OTU, Optical Transport Unit). After electrical-optical conversion, a network hierarchy of the optical layer sequentially includes an optical channel layer, an optical multiplexing section layer, and an optical transport section layer. According to rates of the ODU, the ODU is mainly classified into types shown in table 1.
On the OTN, a lower order ODU can be multiplexed into a higher order ODU. For example, when an ODU1 is compared with an ODU2, the ODU1 is a lower order ODU, and the
ODU2 is a higher order ODU; and when the ODU2 is compared with an ODU3, the ODU2 is a lower order ODU, and the ODU3 is a higher order ODU. Therefore, before the ODU is mapped to the OTU in the foregoing description, it is possible that this ODU needs to be multiplexed as a lower order ODU into a higher order ODU.
An important feature of the OTN is that the OTN not only provides cross-connection and multiplexing (which can be performed by using a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM, Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer) at present) of a wavelength-level optical channel, but also provides cross-connection and multiplexing at a sub-wavelength granularity ODU level.
Both the cross-connection and the multiplexing of the ODU are performed at an electrical layer by electrical signal processing. That is, to perform the cross-connection of the ODU, first, an optical signal needs to be converted into an electrical signal by using an optical receiver, and then the ODU is extracted from the electrical signal layer by layer; then electrical cross-connection is performed, then encapsulation is performed layer by layer, and then conversion to an optical signal is performed by using an optical transmitter. Evidently, an intermediate node of the OTN needs to perform optical-electrical-optical conversion on transmitted data and a great deal of electrical signal processing, a data processing process is complex, and a data processing delay is relatively great.
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method, related device, and system for an optical transport network, which are used for simplifying a data processing process and reducing a data processing delay.
According to a first aspect, a data processing method for an optical transport network is provided, including:
According to a second aspect, a data processing method for an optical transport network is provided, including:
According to a third aspect, a data transmitting processing apparatus is provided, including:
According to a fourth aspect, a data receiving processing apparatus is provided, including:
According to a fifth aspect, an optical transport network system is provided, including:
As can be learned from the foregoing technical solutions, the embodiments of the present invention have the following merits.
The embodiments of the present invention provide that an optical channel data unit (ODU, Optical channel Data Unit) is mapped to an optical burst transport unit, and is mapped to an optical timeslot and an optical burst channel level by level, thereby making an optical burst timeslot switching network and a mature OTN network architecture compatible and unified. On the optical burst timeslot switching network, an optical signal is switched in an all-optical manner, that is, multiplexing and cross-connection processes of an optical burst channel are implemented at an optical layer, and therefore, multiplexing and cross-connection of the ODU can also be implemented at the optical layer, which saves a great deal of optical-electrical conversion, electrical-optical conversion, and electrical processing during a data transmission process. On one hand, a data processing process is simplified. On the other hand, a data processing delay is effectively reduced.
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method, related device, and system for an optical transport network.
Optical burst switching or optical burst timeslot switching is a new all-optical switching technology at a sub-wavelength granularity. A core idea of the technology is to divide a wavelength into many optical timeslots of sub-wavelengths, encapsulate and map service data to each optical timeslot. At an intermediate node of a network, an optical signal is switched by using all-optical manners such as an all-optical switching array. Put simply, the all-optical switching array is an “optical switching chip”. As a counterpart of an “electrical switching chip”, the all-optical switching array can directly switch optical burst packets. By switching an optical signal by using the all-optical manners such as the all-optical switching array, optical-electrical-optical conversion and a great deal of electrical signal processing at the intermediate node are saved. A data processing manner on an optical burst timeslot switching network may be as follows: service data is first encapsulated by using a certain encapsulation manner and mapped to an optical burst transport unit (OBTU, Optical Burst Transport Unit); then, by performing electrical-optical conversion, the optical burst transport unit is mapped to an optical timeslot of an optical burst channel (OBCh, Optical Burst Channel) at an optical layer; then by multiplexing at the optical layer, the optical burst channel is multiplexed to an optical burst multiplex section (OBMS, Optical Burst Multiplex Section); and then the optical burst multiplex section is multiplexed to an optical multiplexing section (OMS, Optical Multiplexing Section) and an optical transport section (OTS, Optical Transport Section). It should be noted that the optical burst transport unit may be also referred to as an optical burst unit, which indicates that an optical burst channel corresponds to an electrical signal at an electrical layer. In the present invention, the “optical burst transport unit” is uniformly used for description.
The following describes a data processing method for an optical transport network in an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to
101: Encapsulate service data into an optical payload unit.
A data transmitting processing apparatus encapsulates the service data into the optical payload unit (OPU, Optical Payload Unit). The service data may be, for example, Ethernet-type service signal data, Gigabit Ethernet service signal data, 10-Gigabit Ethernet service signal data, a synchronous transfer mode signal (such as STM-8 or STM-16), or the like, which is not limited herein.
102: Map the optical payload unit to an ODU.
103: Map the ODU to a payload area of an optical burst transport unit.
In this embodiment of the present invention, an optical burst is a basic switching unit carrying service data at an optical layer, each optical burst is separated by a period of non-optical guard time, and because all optical bursts have equal lengths in terms of time, a period of time occupied by each optical burst and a guard time of the optical burst is referred to as an electrical timeslot (at an electrical layer) or an optical timeslot (at an optical layer). That is, the optical burst is an entity carried on the optical timeslot and has a one-to-one correspondence with the optical timeslot. A time length of each frame is referred to as a frame period, and each frame is formed by the same number of a plurality of optical bursts. An optical burst channel is a set of one or more optical bursts or optical timeslots. Because an optical burst transport unit is an equivalent of a corresponding optical burst channel at the electrical layer, one optical burst transport unit is also a set of one or more timeslots.
In an application scenario, the data transmitting processing apparatus may obtain an
ODU whose signal time length is equal to a frame period of an optical burst transport unit (which is also a frame period of an optical burst transport channel) and map the ODU to a payload area of the optical burst transport unit. For a mapping manner thereof, refer to
mapping the ODU0 to a payload area of the optical burst transport unit by using a generic mapping procedure (GMP, Generic Mapping Procedure) or other mapping manners (such as an asynchronous mapping procedure (AMP, Asynchronous Mapping Procedure) and a bit-synchronous mapping procedure (BMP, Bit-synchronous Mapping Procedure)). A specific implementation method may be: reading the ODU0 of 1.24416 Gb/s into a cache; then reading out the ODU0 at the bit rate of the
OBTU; and placing the ODU0 in a location of the payload area in a buffer area of the optical burst transport unit. It should be noted that besides data bytes of the ODU0, the payload area may also include a small number of overhead bytes of the optical burst transport unit. For a specific overhead, reference may be made to an overhead of the OTU or an overhead in other network mapping manners, and details are not described herein. In an actual application, in order that the optical burst transport unit can normally read the ODU, a bit rate used for mapping the ODU should not be greater than a bit rate of the optical burst transport unit (that is, a rate level of the ODU is not higher than a rate level of the optical burst transport unit). In the foregoing example, the selected frame period of the optical burst transport unit is exactly equal to the signal time length of one ODU0, and data bytes of one ODU0 can be exactly mapped to one optical burst transport unit. In an actual application, selection of the frame period of the optical burst transport unit may also be unrelated to the signal time length of one ODU0. For example, the frame period of one optical burst transport unit may be less than the signal time length of one ODU. In this case, it is only required that an ODU whose signal time length is equal to the frame period of one optical burst transport unit is selected for mapping, as shown in
Further, in this embodiment of the present invention, the data transmitting processing apparatus may also calculate bit data for forward error correction (FEC, Forward Error Correction) coding according to signal data of the ODU and place the bit data in a location for the FEC in the buffer area of the optical burst transport unit.
In another application scenario, the data transmitting processing apparatus may also add overhead bits and FEC bits to the ODU with reference to standards or recommendations such as the
International Telecommunication Union—Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T, International Telecommunication Union—Telecommunication Standardization Sector) G709, map the ODU to an OTU that has a same rate level as that of the ODU, then select, from the OTU, an ODU whose signal time length is equal to the frame period of one optical burst transport unit, and map the ODU to the payload area of the optical burst transport unit.
Further, in this embodiment of the present invention, the data transmitting processing apparatus may also add a preamble (that is, a preamble) and a guard time to the optical burst transport unit, where the preamble is used for assisting in performing one or more of functions such as synchronization, frequency locking, phase locking, clock recovery, and power locking, and the guard time is used for separating each optical burst, so as to perform cross-connection and burst receiving on the optical burst or optical timeslot when electrical-optical conversion is performed on the optical burst transport unit.
104: Perform electrical-optical conversion on the optical burst transport unit to form an optical burst transport unit.
The data transmitting processing apparatus performs electrical-optical conversion on the optical burst transport unit that carries the ODU to obtain the optical burst transport unit.
105: Carry the optical burst transport unit onto an optical timeslot of an optical burst channel.
An optical burst channel is formed by an optical transmitter by performing electrical-optical conversion on an optical burst transport unit. One optical burst channel corresponds to one optical burst transport unit. The optical burst channel and the optical burst transport unit include same signal data, but the optical burst transport unit is transmitted at the electrical layer and the optical burst channel is transmitted at the optical layer. Because the optical burst channel is formed by performing electrical-optical conversion on the optical burst transport unit, a rate level of the optical burst channel is a rate level of the optical burst transport unit, the number of optical timeslots occupied by the optical burst channel is same as the number of electrical timeslots occupied by the optical burst transport unit, and the electrical timeslot and the optical timeslot have same time lengths.
106: Transmit the optical burst channel to a line.
In an application scenario, the data transmitting processing apparatus performs optical burst timeslot multiplexing or optical burst add/drop multiplexing on the optical burst channel and optical burst channels mapped from other ODUs to form an optical burst multiplex section. Certainly, the data transmitting processing apparatus may also multiplex a plurality of optical burst channels and one optical burst multiplex section into one optical burst multiplex section. The optical burst timeslot multiplexing may be implemented by using an M:1 optical combiner or a fast optical switch; and the optical burst add/drop multiplexing may be implemented by using a 2×2 fast optical switch. When the 2×2 fast optical switch is in a straight-through state, an optical timeslot on a line passes straight through the 2×2 fast optical switch, and add/drop multiplexing does not occur at this time; and when the 2×2 fast optical switch is in a cross-connection state, the optical timeslot on the line is dropped (that is, drop) to the local data transmitting processing apparatus, and the data transmitting processing apparatus may also add (that is, add) an optical timeslot to the line. Certainly, the optical burst add/drop multiplexing may also be implemented by using a 1×1 fast optical switch. First, several optical bursts on the line pass through a splitter, a part of optical power is tapped off to the local data transmitting processing apparatus and passes through a 1×1 fast optical switch to drop optical timeslots to be dropped to this local data transmitting processing apparatus; another part of optical power passes through another 1×1 fast optical switch on the line and remove optical bursts on optical timeslots already dropped to the local data transmitting processing apparatus, to vacate the optical timeslots. The local data transmitting processing apparatus may use the vacated optical timeslots to perform add multiplexing on an optical burst in the optical burst channel by using an optical combiner. Both the optical burst timeslot multiplexing and the optical burst add/drop multiplexing are performed at the optical layer.
In another application scenario, the data transmitting processing apparatus may also perform cross-connection on the optical burst channel and optical burst channels mapped from other ODUs, where the cross-connection is performed on the optical layer. The cross-connection may be implemented by using a fast optical switching array, where a fast optical switching array may be formed by an N×N fast optical switch. Each input port of the fast optical switching array may be a wavelength signal, that is, a signal multiplexed by a plurality of optical burst channels. The signal may be frame-aligned with signals at other input ports by using an adjustable optical delay line of the input port, so as to perform timeslot cross-connection. The N×N fast optical switch switches same optical timeslots at input ports and quickly reconfigures each optical timeslot, thereby implementing cross-connection of the optical burst channel. Certainly, the cross-connection may also be implemented by other switching devices, which is not limited herein.
In this embodiment of the present invention, several optical timeslots of a wavelength are divided into one frame, and there are at least two manners for such dividing.
First division manner: On a network, a frame length (which refers to a time length of a frame) is fixed. For optical burst channels at different rate levels, different numbers of optical timeslots are divided for each frame, so that bandwidth granularities of all optical timeslots are consistent. As shown in
Second division manner: On a network, a frame period is fixed. For optical burst channels at different rate levels, the same number of optical timeslots are divided for each frame. Therefore, in this manner, for optical burst channels at different rate levels, the optical timeslots are divided at different bandwidth granularities are. Table 2 is a table that shows a bandwidth granularity of each optical timeslot on optical burst channels at different rate levels when 80 optical timeslots form one frame. As can be seen from table 2, for an optical burst channel whose rate level is 100 G, a bandwidth granularity of each optical timeslot is a bandwidth granularity of one ODU0.
The foregoing describes two manners about optical timeslot division in this embodiment of the present invention. In an actual application, other division manners may also be adopted, which is not limited herein.
As can be learned from the foregoing, the embodiment of the present invention provides that an ODU is mapped to an optical burst transport unit, and is mapped to an optical timeslot and an optical burst channel level by level, thereby making an optical burst timeslot switching network and a mature OTN network architecture compatible and unified. On the optical burst timeslot switching network, an optical signal is switched in an all-optical manner, that is, multiplexing and cross-connection processes of an optical burst channel are implemented at an optical layer, and therefore, multiplexing and cross-connection of the ODU can also be implemented at the optical layer, which saves a great deal of optical-electrical conversion, electrical-optical conversion, and electrical processing during a data transmission process. On one hand, a data processing process is simplified. On the other hand, a data processing delay is effectively reduced.
The following describes a data processing method for an optical transport network in an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to
501: Obtain an optical burst channel carried on a line.
A data receiving processing apparatus receives the optical burst channel from the line.
In an application scenario, if the optical burst channel carried on the line is an optical burst channel transmitted in a multiplexing manner, that is, an optical burst multiplex section, the data receiving processing apparatus performs demultiplexing on the optical burst multiplex section on the line to obtain more than two optical burst channels. The demultiplexing may be implemented by using a 1:M fast optical switch, where the adopted fast optical switch corresponds to a fast optical switch adopted during multiplexing. That is, if a 2:1 fast optical switch is adopted during multiplexing, a 1:2 fast optical switch is adopted for demultiplexing.
502: The data receiving processing apparatus performs optical-electrical conversion on an optical burst transport unit on the obtained optical burst channel to obtain an optical burst transport unit.
In this embodiment of the present invention, an optical burst is a basic switching unit that carries a data signal, each optical burst is separated by a period of non-optical guard time, and because all optical bursts have equal lengths in terms of time, a period of time occupied by each optical burst and a guard time of the optical burst is referred to as an electrical timeslot (at an electrical layer) or an optical timeslot (at an optical layer). A time length of each frame is referred to as a frame period, and all frames are formed by the same number of optical bursts, where the number of the optical bursts may be one or more. An optical burst transport unit is a set of one or more timeslots of optical bursts.
503: The data receiving processing apparatus demaps the optical burst transport unit to obtain an ODU from a payload area of the optical burst transport unit.
504: The data receiving processing apparatus demaps the ODU to obtain an optical payload unit.
505: The data receiving processing apparatus decapsulates the optical payload unit to obtain service data.
The service data may be, for example, Ethernet-type service signal data, Gigabit Ethernet service signal data, 10-Gigabit Ethernet service signal data, a synchronous transfer mode signal (such as STM-8 or STM-16), or the like, which is not limited herein.
As can be learned from the foregoing, the embodiment of the present invention provides that an ODU is mapped to an optical burst transport unit, and is mapped to an optical timeslot and an optical burst channel level by level, thereby making an optical burst timeslot switching network and a mature OTN network architecture compatible and unified. On the optical burst timeslot switching network, an optical signal is switched in an all-optical manner, that is, multiplexing and cross-connection processes of an optical burst channel are implemented at an optical layer, and therefore, multiplexing and cross-connection of the ODU can also be implemented at the optical layer, which saves a great deal of optical-electrical conversion, electrical-optical conversion, and electrical processing during a data transmission process. On one hand, a data processing process is simplified. On the other hand, a data processing delay is effectively reduced.
The following describes a data transmitting processing apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to
An encapsulating unit 601 is configured to encapsulate service data into an optical payload unit.
The service data may be, for example, Ethernet-type service signal data, Gigabit Ethernet service signal data, 10-Gigabit Ethernet service signal data, a synchronous transfer mode signal (such as STM-8 or STM-16), or the like, which is not limited herein;
A first mapping unit 602 is configured to map the optical payload unit to an ODU.
A second mapping unit 603 is configured to map the ODU to a payload area of an optical burst transport unit.
In this embodiment of the present invention, an optical burst is a basic switching unit carrying service data at an optical layer, each optical burst is separated by a period of non-optical guard time, and because all optical bursts have equal lengths in terms of time, a period of time occupied by each optical burst and a guard time of the optical burst is referred to as an electrical timeslot (at an electrical layer) or an optical timeslot (at an optical layer). That is, the optical burst is an entity carried on the optical timeslot and has a one-to-one correspondence with the optical timeslot. A time length of each frame is referred to as a frame period, and each frame is formed by the same number of a plurality of optical bursts. An optical burst channel is a set of one or more optical bursts or optical timeslots. Because an optical burst transport unit is an equivalent of a corresponding optical burst channel at the electrical layer, one optical burst transport unit is also a set of one or more timeslots.
In this embodiment of the present invention, the second mapping unit 603 may obtain an ODU whose signal time length is equal to a frame period of an optical burst transport unit and map the ODU to a payload area of the optical burst transport unit. In an actual application, in order that the optical burst transport unit can normally read the ODU, a bit rate used for mapping the ODU should not be greater than a bit rate of the optical burst transport unit (that is, a rate level of the ODU is not higher than a rate level of the optical burst transport unit). In an actual application, selection of the frame period of the optical burst transport unit may also be unrelated to the signal time length of one ODU0. For example, the frame period of one optical burst transport unit may be less than the signal time length of one ODU. In this case, it is only required that an ODU whose signal time length is equal to the frame period of one optical burst transport unit is selected for mapping, as shown in
An electrical-optical conversion module 604 is configured to perform electrical-optical conversion on the optical burst transport unit already mapped by the second mapping unit 603 to form an optical burst transport unit.
An optical burst mapping module 605 is configured to carry, the optical burst transport unit obtained by the electrical-optical conversion module 604 by using conversion, onto an optical timeslot of an optical burst channel.
A transmitting module 606 is configured to transmit the optical burst channel processed by the optical burst mapping module 605 to a line.
Further, the transmitting module 606 may further include: a multiplexing module (not shown in
Further, the transmitting module 606 may further include: a cross-connection module (not shown in
Further, the data transmitting processing apparatus 600 may further include: a dividing unit, configured to: for optical burst channels at different bit rates, divide each frame into different numbers of optical timeslots, so that all optical timeslots have a same bandwidth granularity; or a dividing unit, configured to: for optical burst channels at different bit rates, divide each frame into the same number of optical timeslots.
It should be noted that the data transmitting processing apparatus 600 in this embodiment of the present invention may be the data transmitting processing apparatus in the foregoing apparatus embodiment. The data transmitting processing apparatus 600 may be configured to implement all the technical solutions in the foregoing apparatus embodiment, and functions of the functional modules of the data transmitting processing apparatus 600 may be specifically implemented according to the method in the foregoing method embodiment. For a specific implementation process thereof, reference may be made to related description in the foregoing embodiment, which is not repeated herein.
As can be learned from the foregoing, the embodiment of the present invention provides that an ODU is mapped to an optical burst transport unit, and is mapped to an optical timeslot and an optical burst channel level by level, thereby making an optical burst timeslot switching network and a mature OTN network architecture compatible and unified. On the optical burst timeslot switching network, an optical signal is switched in an all-optical manner, that is, multiplexing and cross-connection processes of an optical burst channel are implemented at an optical layer, and therefore, multiplexing and cross-connection of the ODU can also be implemented at the optical layer, which saves a great deal of optical-electrical conversion, electrical-optical conversion, and electrical processing during a data transmission process. On one hand, a data processing process is simplified. On the other hand, a data processing delay is effectively reduced.
The following describes a data receiving processing apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to
In an application scenario, if the optical burst channel carried on the line is an optical burst channel transmitted in a multiplexing manner, that is, an optical burst multiplex section, the obtaining unit 701 further includes a demultiplexing unit, configured to perform demultiplexing on the optical burst multiplex section on the line to obtain more than two optical burst channels. The demultiplexing may be implemented by using a 1:M fast optical switch, where the adopted fast optical switch corresponds to a fast optical switch adopted during multiplexing. That is, if a 2:1 fast optical switch is adopted during multiplexing, a 1:2 fast optical switch is adopted for demultiplexing.
It should be noted that the data receiving processing apparatus 700 in this embodiment of the present invention may be the data receiving processing apparatus in the foregoing apparatus embodiment. The data receiving processing apparatus 700 may be configured to implement all the technical solutions in the foregoing apparatus embodiment, and functions of the functional modules of the data receiving processing apparatus 700 may be specifically implemented according to the method in the foregoing method embodiment. For a specific implementation process thereof, reference may be made to related description in the foregoing embodiment, which is not repeated herein.
As can be learned from the foregoing, the embodiment of the present invention provides that an ODU is mapped to an optical burst transport unit, and is mapped to an optical timeslot and an optical burst channel level by level, thereby making an optical burst timeslot switching network and a mature OTN network architecture compatible and unified. On the optical burst timeslot switching network, an optical signal is switched in an all-optical manner, that is, multiplexing and cross-connection processes of an optical burst channel are implemented at an optical layer, and therefore, multiplexing and cross-connection of the ODU can also be implemented at the optical layer, which saves a great deal of optical-electrical conversion, electrical-optical conversion, and electrical processing during a data transmission process. On one hand, a data processing process is simplified. On the other hand, a data processing delay is effectively reduced.
The following describes an optical transport network system in an embodiment of the present invention. The optical transport network system in this embodiment of the present invention includes:
In this embodiment of the present invention, the data transmitting processing apparatus may obtain an ODU whose signal time length is equal to a frame period of an optical burst transport unit and map the ODU to a payload area of the optical burst transport unit. Certainly, the signal time length of the ODU mapped to the payload area of the optical burst transport unit may also be greater than or less than the frame period of the optical burst transport unit, which is not limited herein.
It should be noted that the data transmitting processing apparatus in this embodiment of the present invention may be the data transmitting processing apparatus 600 in the foregoing apparatus embodiment, and the data receiving processing apparatus in this embodiment of the present invention may be the data receiving processing apparatus 700 in the foregoing apparatus embodiment. The data transmitting processing apparatus 600 and the data receiving processing apparatus 700 may be configured to implement all the technical solutions in the foregoing apparatus embodiments, and functions of the functional modules of the data transmitting processing apparatus 600 and the data receiving processing apparatus 700 may be specifically implemented according to the methods in the foregoing method embodiments. For a specific implementation process thereof, reference may be made to related description in the foregoing embodiments, which is not repeated herein.
As can be learned from the foregoing, the embodiment of the present invention provides that an ODU is mapped to an optical burst transport unit, and is mapped to an optical timeslot and an optical burst channel level by level, thereby making an optical burst timeslot switching network and a mature OTN network architecture compatible and unified. On the optical burst timeslot switching network, an optical signal is switched in an all-optical manner, that is, multiplexing and cross-connection processes of an optical burst channel are implemented at an optical layer, and therefore, multiplexing and cross-connection of the ODU can also be implemented at the optical layer, which saves a great deal of optical-electrical conversion, electrical-optical conversion, and electrical processing during a data transmission process. On one hand, a data processing process is simplified. On the other hand, a data processing delay is effectively reduced.
In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the described apparatus embodiment is merely exemplary. For example, the unit division is merely logical function division and may be other division in actual implementation. For example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutual couplings or direct couplings or communication connections may be implemented through some interfaces. The indirect couplings or communication connections between the apparatuses or units may be implemented in electronic, mechanical, or other forms.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one position, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. A part or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the objectives of the solutions of the embodiments.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each of the units may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit may be implemented in a form of hardware, or may be implemented in a form of a software functional unit.
When the integrated unit is implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, the integrated unit may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention essentially, or the part contributing to the prior art, or all or a part of the technical solutions may be implemented in the form of a software product. The software product is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or a part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present invention. The foregoing storage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), a random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
The foregoing introduces in detail the data processing method, related device, and system for the optical transport network provided by the present invention. For a person of ordinary skill in the art, variations may be made to the present invention in terms of specific implementation manners and application scopes according to the ideas of the embodiments of the present invention. Therefore, this specification shall not be construed as limitations to the present invention.
This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2012/075513, filed on May 15 2012, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| Parent | PCT/CN2012/075513 | May 2012 | US |
| Child | 14541950 | US |
