2. 1 Implementation of CORBA Management Interface for B-PON System Hironori Terauchi (Mitsubishi Electric), E-Mail:tera@isl.melco.co.jp Kouji Sato (Mitsubishi Electric), E-Mail:skouji@isl.melco.co.jp Taichi Kawabata (NTT), E-Mail:kawabata@exa.onlab.ntt.co.jp Eisaku Morita (NTT-AT) E-Mail:eisaku@trans.ntt-at.co.jp

3. 2 ONT Max 32 TV (Video Dist) TEL (Voice) Internet (Data) OLT Internet PON Section (155M/622Mbps) Multi Services Platform by ATM technology B-PON (Broadband Passive Optical Network) Exclusive Line(DS1/E1) SONET (TDM) PSTN SNI Video UNI 1. Introduction FTTH = Fiber To The Home

4. 3 SNMP 2.1 Legacy Approach SNMP SMS (EMS) OMS (NMS) TL1 CMIP Management interface between OMS(=NMS) and SMS(=EMS) depends on network element. LANATMTDM(DS3) For example… more… 2. Management Interface Individual Management Interface.

5. 4 2.2 New Approach 1.Requirements are –Interoperability –Time to market –Cost 2. Management Interface 2.OSS components are connected by generic software bus –CORBA –HTTP/XML 3.B-PON management –discussed in FSAN –standardized as ITU-T Q834.4

6. 5 Q.834.3 UML description for management interface requirements Network Element View Network View NMS (OMS) EMS (SMS) Q.834.1 Q.834.2 Q.834.4 CORBA I/F (IDL) 2. Management Interface 2.2 Structure of Q.834 series Q.834.3 - Provisioning installed network resources - Provisioning uninstalled network resources including capacity reservation - Service provisioning - Archive management - NE software management - NE configuration data backup and restore - Performance management - NE event publication - Profile management - Testing - Activity scheduling - Bulk transfer management - NE-EMS synchronization - Access control

7. 6 FTTX ISEM NMS TL1 3.1 B-PON: Multi-Service Platform FTTBFTTPFTTH 3. Prototype System

8. 7 3.2 Q.834.4 Prototype System 1. Prototyping for investigating... –Feasibility –Functionality –Interoperability 2. Test results are applied to Q.834.4 3. Focused on Profile Management functions.

9. 8 ISEM(B-PON SMS) CORBA Agent ORB HMI Agent NE Manager NE CORBA Navigator (OMS) Profile Object Repository COS NamingService COS NotificationService HMI RMI/Jini Q.834.4 CORBA I/F 3.3 Q.834.4 Prototype System Architecture LAN/ ISDN 3. Prototype System

10. 9 4.1 Q.834.4 Functional Feasibility 1.Testing based on a management scenario –create/delete a Traffic Descriptor Profile TDP) –create/delete a connection using a TDP. 2.Implementation issues are... –naming conventions in the CosNameService. –the granularity difference of TDPs. –ambiguous behavior of a exception. 4. Q.834.4 Interoperability Investigation

11. 10 4.2 Summary of current interoperability problem 1. OMGs CORBA2.4.*, 2.5 and other version. Interoperability ??? 2. The LocateReply Body of GIOP1.2 –aligned on an 8-octet boundary (2.4.*, 2.5) –marshaled immediately following the LocateReply Header (2.6 and higher version) resulted to 4-octet boundary. –without explicit description, however according its marshaling rule, it is 4-octet boundary.(before 2.4) 4. Q.834.4 Interoperability Investigation

12. 11 4.2 Summary of current interoperability problem (cont.) OMG should properly update the latest specifications of CORBA2.4.*,2.5. 4. Q.834.4 Interoperability Investigation Interoperability between CORBA systems will be much improved.

13. 12 Conclusion 1. This paper describes the prototype system based on Q.834.4 specification. In the process of prototyping, implementation guidelines based on Q.834.4 are highlighted. 5. Conclusion 2. Using the prototype system, feasibility of Q.834.4 profile management functions for real operations is verified. Authors focused on B-PON management interface specified in Q.834.4 using CORBA technology.