Access Control System: Monitoring Tool for Fiber to the Home Passive Optical Network

An optical fault monitoring in FTTH-PON using ACS is demonstrated. This device can achieve real-time fault monitoring for protection feeder fiber. In addition, the ACS can distinguish optical fiber fault from the transmission services to other customers in the FTTH-PON. It is essential to use a wavelength different from the triple-play services operating wavelengths for failure detection. ACS is using the operating wavelength 1625 nm for monitoring and failure detection control. Our solution works on a standard local area network (LAN) using a specially designed hardware interfaced with a microcontroller integrated Ethernet.

Authors:

• Aswir Premadi
• Mohammad Syuhaimi Ab. Rahman
• Mohamad Najib Moh. Saupe
• KasmiranJumari

Keywords:

• ACS
• monitoring tool
• FTTH-PON.

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