Patent ID: 10790924

Abstract:
A method (100) for facilitating Optical Supervisory Channel (OSC) communications between a main site and a plurality of remote sites in an optical network is disclosed. The main and remote sites are comprised within a Radio Access Network and the main and remote sites are connected via a point to multipoint optical infrastructure. The method comprises receiving an OSC signal on an OSC from the main site (120), sequentially routing OSC signals on the OSC to each of the remote sites in a daisy chain configuration (140) and returning an OSC signal received on the OSC from a last of the remote sites in the daisy chain configuration to the main site (160), the OSC being transported over the point to multipoint optical infrastructure (170). Also disclosed are a method (500) for performing OSC communications in an optical network, a hub node (300, 400), a remote site node (600, 800) and a system (900) for communications in an optical network.