Optical branching/insertion device, optical branching/insertion method and recording medium

Abstract

[Objective] To make it possible to effectively relay remaining signals even when any input failure occurs on a propagation path. [Solution] Provided is an optical branching/insertion device including: a trunk-side detection/branching unit for detecting a failure of a trunk-side optical signal inputted from the trunk side and outputting it as a first detection result, and for splitting the trunk-side optical signal and sending the split signals respectively to the trunk side and to the branch side; a branch-side detection unit for detecting a failure of a branch-side optical signal inserted from the branch side and outputting it as a second detection result, and for sending the branch-side optical signal as an insertion signal; an insertion signal adjustment unit for outputting the insertion signal with its pass-through degree having been adjusted on the basis of the first detection result, as a first adjusted signal; a trunk signal adjustment unit for outputting the trunk-side optical signal with its pass-through degree having been adjusted on the basis of the first detection result, as a second adjusted signal; and a combining/output unit for outputting, to the outside, an optical signal into which the first adjusted signal and the second adjusted signal are combined together, as a trunk-side output optical signal.