The data shows that IP data traffic has doubled from 2010 to 2014 and will maintain a compound growth rate of 23% in the future, while mobile traffic increased by 69% in 2014 and will be 10 times that of 2014 by 2019 , the rapidly increasing data traffic has put forward higher requirements on the bandwidth and capacity of the underlying optical network equipment. At the same time, with the development of global informatization and the intensification of ICT integration, IT concepts have penetrated into all fields of traditional communication, and the optical network architecture is facing changes, which will profoundly affect the development of optical network equipment.
The development of optical communication network equipment business is driving the transformation of optical network architecture to meet the development needs of cloud computing, the Internet, and data centers. Transform to an open network, from an independent transport layer network to a converged and coordinated bearer network. Although operators and equipment vendors are actively exploring related technological innovations and network development and evolution, my country's overall optical network architecture is intelligent and open, technological innovation and institutional breakthroughs have not progressed significantly, and it is urgent to strengthen technological innovation and transform the traditional operating system.
Under the new situation of active innovation in informatization and ICT integration, optical network equipment, as one of the most important information and communication infrastructures, will play an increasingly prominent role in supporting the informatization and broadband construction of my country's society. The management of optical communication network equipment will also become an element that affects the future development trend of optical communication network equipment.
Zhihe network management platform, aiming at the development of optical communication network equipment and its own network management experience, has successfully developed a set of intelligent network management platform suitable for my country's optical communication network equipment, aiming at optical fields such as optical transmission, optical access, SDH, PDM, etc. Solve the network management problems of optical equipment.
The Zhihe network management platform has the following functions for optical device management:
- Automatically discover devices, boards, remote devices and physical link relationships;
- Manage the panel diagram, rack diagram, and indicator status diagram of the device, and support board switching and hot swapping;
- Configure the board information, board information, disk information and communication parameters of the device through SNMP;
- Provide equipment upgrade, configuration backup, software version maintenance;
- Manage and monitor various optical signal failures, board failures, communication failures, power failures, fan failures, etc.;
- Graphically monitor equipment link faults, traffic, and network data;
- Monitor optical signal quality, E1 card performance data, service board performance;
- Support STM, VC4, VC3, VC12 service channel and service cross-connection management;
- Distribute faults, statuses, and messages through emails, text messages, status lights, and interface prompts;
- Gain insight into device configuration information, operational information, performance charts, fault charts, and more.