IP Library Granted Patent US 7,046,932
Granted Patent B2
US 7,046,932 · App. 10/243,646 · Granted May 16, 2006

Channel allocation apparatus of OSU in WDM system

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Patent No.
US 7,046,932
App. No.
10/243,646
Granted
May 16, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A channel allocation apparatus of an OSU in a WDM system includes: an optical signal converter for performing a conversion operation between an E1 data frame and an optical signal; a channel allocating unit for performing a counting operation by a certain unit on the E1 data, detecting an channel allocated to the E1 data or allocating a channel to the E1 data; an E1 framer for reframing the E1 data frame outputted from the optical signal converter to output it to the channel allocating unit, and framing the E1 data outputted from the channel allocating unit to output it to the optical signal converter; and a microprocessor for controlling an operation of the E1 framer. After the E1 data is counted by a certain unit to sequentially identify a plurality of channels, a channel data is assigned to a corresponding channel or a channel data assigned to the channel is detected.

Claims (69)

1. A channel allocation apparatus of an OSU in a WDM system comprising:

an optical signal converter for performing a conversion operation between an E1 data frame and an optical signal;

a channel allocating unit for performing a counting operation by a certain unit on E1 data and detecting an channel allocated to the E1 data, the channel allocating unit including a demultiplexing unit to detect data assigned to each channel, the demultiplexing unit including:

a demultiplexer to demultiplex the E1 data and detect the data assigned to each channel;

a buffer unit to store the detected channel data; and

a channel data multiplexer to multiplex the channel data stored in the buffer unit and to output the multiplexed channel data;

an E1 framer for refraining the E1 data frame outputted from the optical signal converter to output it to the channel allocating unit, and framing the E1 data outputted from the channel allocating unit to output it to the optical signal converter; and

a microprocessor for controlling an operation of the E1 framer.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the certain unit is an 8 bit.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the channel allocation unit

further includes a multiplexing unit for counting the E1 data by 8 bit units to separate a plurality of channels and assigning a certain data to the separated channel to form an E1 data.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the multiplexing unit comprises:

a counter unit for counting the entire channels of the E1 frame;

an enabling unit for generating an enable signal in each channel according to a countvalue of the counter unit;

a channel data demultiplexer activated by the enable signal and demultiplexing a channel data;

a buffer unit for storing the demultiplexed channel data; and

a multiplexer activated by the enable signal, multiplexing the channel data stored in the buffer unit and assigning the channel data to the E1 data.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the channel data comprises a data communication channel (DCC) data and an orderwire (OW) data.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the demultiplexing unit further includes:

a counter unit for counting the entire channels of the E1 frame; and

an enabling unit for generating an enable signal in each channel according to a count value of the counter unit, wherein the demultiplexer is activated by the enable signal,

and the channel data multiplexer is activated by the enable signal, the channel data multiplexer outputting the multiplexed channel data to an external data processing unit.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the channel data comprises a data communication channel (DCC) data and an orderwire (OW) data.

8. A channel allocation apparatus of an OSU in a WDM system comprising:

an optical signal converter for performing a conversion operation between an E1 data frame and an optical signal;

a demultiplexing unit for counting the E1 data by 8 bit units, counting it to separate a plurality of channels and detecting a data allocated to the separated channels, the demultiplexing unit to detect data assigned to each channel, the demultiplexing unit including:

a demultiplexer to demultiplex the E1 data and detect the data assigned to each channel,

a buffer unit to store the detected channel data, and

a channel data multiplexer to multiplex the channel data stored in the buffer unit and to output the multiplexed channel data;

a multiplexing unit for counting the E1 data by 8 bit units to separate it to a plurality of channels, allocating a certain data to the separated channel and forming an E1 data;

an E1 framer for refraining the E1 data frame outputted from the optical signal converter to output it to the demultiplexing unit, framing the E1 data outputted from the multiplexing unit to output it to the optical signal converter; and

a microprocessor for controlling an operation of the E1 framer.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the demultiplexing unit further includes:

a counter unit for counting the entire channels of the E1 frame; and

an enabling unit for generating an enable signal in each channel according to a count value of the counter unit, wherein the demultiplexer is activated by the enable signal,

and the channel data multiplexer is activated by the enable signal, the channel data multiplexer outputting the channel to an external data processing unit.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the channel data comprises a data communication channel (DCC) data and an orderwire (OW) data.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the multiplexing unit comprises:

a counter unit for counting the entire channels of the E1 frame;

an enabling unit for generating an enable signal in each channel according to a count value of the counter unit;

a channel data demultiplexer activated by the enable signal and demultiplexing a channel data;

a buffer unit for storing the demultiplexed channel data; and

a multiplexer activated by the enable signal, multiplexing the channel data stored in the buffer unit and assigning the channel data to the E1 data.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the channel data comprises a data communication channel (DCC) data and an orderwire (OW) data.

13. A channel allocation apparatus of an OSU in a WDM system comprising:

an optical signal converter for performing a conversion operation between an E1 data frame and an optical signal;

a channel allocating unit for performing a counting operation by a certain unit on E1 data and allocating a channel to the E1 data, the channel allocating unit including a multiplexing unit to allocate data to the E1 data, the multiplexing unit including:

a channel data demultiplexer to demultiplex channel data,

a buffer unit to store the demultiplexed channel data, and

a multiplexer to multiplex the channel data stored in the buffer unit and assign the channel data to the E1 data;

an E1 framer for framing the E1 data outputted from the channel allocating unit to output it to the optical signal converter; and

a microprocessor for controlling the E1 framer.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the multiplexing unit further includes:

a counter unit to count channels of the E1 data frame; and

an enabling unit to generate an enable signal for each channel according to a count value of the counter unit, wherein the channel data demultiplexer is activated by the enable signal and the multiplexer is activated by the enable signal.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the channel data comprises data communication channel (DCC) data and orderwire (OW) data.

16. A channel allocation apparatus of an OSU in a WDM system comprising:

an optical signal converter to convert between an E1 data frame and an optical signal;

a demultiplexing unit to count E1 data by 8 bit units, counting it to separate a plurality of channels and detect a data allocated to the separated channels;

a multiplexing unit to count the E1 data by 8 bit units to separate it to a plurality of channels, allocating a certain data to the separated channel and forming an E1 data, the multiplexing unit including:

a channel data demultiplexer to demultiplex channel data;

a buffer unit to store the demultiplexed channel data; and

a multiplexer to multiplex the channel data stored in the buffer unit and assign the channel data to the E1 data;

an E1 framer to frame the E1 data outputted from the multiplexing unit to output it to the optical signal converter; and

a microprocessor for controlling an operation of the E1 framer.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the multiplexing unit further includes:

a counter unit to count channels of the E1 data frame; and

an enabling unit to generate an enable signal in each channel according to the count value of the counter unit, wherein the channel data demultiplexer is activated by the enable signal and the multiplexer is activated by the enable signal.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the channel data compromises a data communication channel (DCC) data and an orderwire (OW) data.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 24, 2011
From: LG-NORTEL CO., LTD.
To: LG-ERICSSON CO., LTD.
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