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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
May. 12, 2014
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Michael R. Shaffer, Longwood, FL (US);
Frank J. Effenberger, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a Generic Status Portal (GSP) configured to grant access to a Managed Entity (ME) via an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) Management and Control Interface (OMCI), wherein the ME comprises status information about a non-OMCI management domain at the ONT. Also included is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising initializing an ONT ME, adding status information associated with a managed function to the ONT ME, indicating a status information update of the ONT ME, and providing the status information via an OMCI. Included is a method comprising providing status and performance monitoring (PM) information from an ONT via an OMCI at the ONT, wherein the status and PM information is associated with at least one managed function instance of at least one non-OMCI domain.