Fujitsu Corporation

Hisashi Taketomi

Junichi Moriyama

Kanji Naito

Yasuko Nozu

Fumihiro Ikawa

Hatsumi Iino

Kohei Ichimura

An optical cross-connect apparatus includes: a plurality of switch units connected to each other via input ports and output ports; a storage unit to store a setting table in which output port information and corresponding input port information are associated together and registered for each optical signal such that the output port information identifies a specific output port, in the output ports, that outputs the optical signal and the input port information identifies a specific input port, in the input ports, that inputs the optical signal; a setting processor to set each switch unit in the plurality of switch units according to the setting table so as to set a wavelength for each optical signal that is input via the input ports or output via the output ports; and an update processor to update the content of the setting table in response to external input.

Optical cross-connect apparatus

A communication system performs WDM optical communications efficiently with variably set supervisory control channels. The communication system includes a supervisory control channel setting unit for variably setting supervisory control channels for supervising optical communications, said supervisory control channels including a first optical supervisory channel whose transmission band falls outside of the transmission band for main optical signals, and a second supervisory channel whose transmission band falls in an idle band in the transmission band for said main optical signals. The communication system also has a WDM transmitting unit for wavelength-multiplexing and -demultiplexing said supervisory control channels and said main optical signals. A setting information indicating unit indicates, to a WDM device, setting information for setting the supervisory control channels. An operating state managing unit manages a network operating state.

Communication system

Disclosed is an optical transmission system for transmitting data via an optical transmission line in accordance with a frame format having overhead which includes a K1 byte used for a switching request and a K2 byte used to respond to the K1 byte. The optical transmission system includes N sets of working terminal stations, one set of protection terminal stations, N-number of optical transmission lines for interconnecting respective ones of the N sets of working terminal stations one optical protection transmission line for interconnecting the one set of protection terminal stations, repeater stations, which are provided in the optical transmission lines between the N sets of working terminal stations, for demultiplexing and outputting data extracted from the transmission lines or for multiplexing data and inserting the data in the transmission lines, protection transmission line connecting units, which are provided at positions in a protection transmission line corresponding to positions at which the repeater stations are disposed, for switching a failed transmission line to the protection transmission line in every section demarcated by the repeater stations. A working terminal station or repeater station that has detected occurrence of failure in a transmission line of a prescribed section sends K1 byte to and receives K2 byte from an opposing working terminal station or repeater station of the section via a protection terminal station or protection transmission line connecting unit and switches the failed transmission line section to the protection transmission line.

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Tama, Japan

Hisashi Taketomi