SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CABLE MONITORING

• US 20120257890A1
• Filed: 06/21/2012
• Published: 10/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Aguren, Jerry G.
• Granted Patent: US 9,064,221 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 398/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/07 Arrangements for monitoring or testing transmission systems; Arrangements for fault measurement of transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/40 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/43 using a single component as both light source and receiver, e.g. using a photoemitter as a photoreceiver

Abstract

Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for cable monitoring. One embodiment includes a method that receives data from an optical transceiver coupled to a cable and a RFID (radio frequency identification) device mounted to the cable. The data from the optical transceiver and RFID device is used to determine an operational status of the cable.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method, comprising:

receiving optical and laser data of a first optical transceiver from the first optical transceiver which is coupled to a first end of a fiber optic cable at a first optical communication device;

receiving optical and laser data of a second optical transceiver from the second optical transceiver which is coupled to a second end of the fiber optic cable at a second optical communication device; and

diagnosing the received data from the first and second optical transceivers to determine an electrical and optical operational status of the fiber optic cable and the first and second optical transceivers.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the operational status includes at least one of normal cable condition, degraded cable condition and failed cable condition.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the optical data includes at least one of optical power information that includes at least one of optical transmit power and optical receive power.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the laser data includes laser information that includes one of laser transmit current, laser transmit optical power, and photodiode optical energy.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the data is provided over a standard protocol that includes at least one of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative-Specification).

26. The method of claim 21, further comprising collecting at least one of a first portion of the data from the first end of the cable and a second portion of the data from the second end of the cable.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein at least one of the first and second optical transceiver is a small form-factor pluggable.

28. The method of claim 21, wherein at least one of the first optical transceiver communicates with the first optical communication device through an I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) Interface and the second optical transceiver communicates with the second optical communication device through an I2C Interface.

29. A computer system, comprising:

a memory to store processor executable instructions; and

a processor to execute the instructions to;

receive optical and laser data of a first optical transceiver from the first optical transceiver which is coupled to a first end of a fiber optic cable at a first optical communication device,

receive optical and laser data of a second optical transceiver from the second optical transceiver which is coupled to a second end of the fiber optic cable at a second optical communication device, and

diagnose the received data from the first and second optical transceivers to determine an electrical and optical operational status of the fiber optic cable and the first and second optical transceivers.

30. The computer system of claim 29, wherein the operational status includes at least one of normal cable condition, degraded cable condition and failed cable condition.

31. The computer system of claim 29, wherein the optical data includes at least one of optical power information that includes at least one of optical transmit power and optical receive power.

32. The computer system of claim 29, wherein the laser data includes laser information that includes one of laser transmit current, laser transmit optical power, and photodiode optical energy.

33. The computer system of claim 29, wherein the data is provided over a standard protocol that includes at least one of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative-Specification).

34. The computer system of claim 29, wherein at least one of the first and second optical transceiver is a small form-factor pluggable.

35. The computer system of claim 29, wherein at least one of the, first optical transceiver communicates with the first optical communication device through an I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) Interface and the second optical transceiver communicates with the second optical communication device through an I2C Interface.

36. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions are executable by a processor to:

receive optical and laser data of a first optical transceiver from the first optical transceiver which is coupled to a first end of a fiber optic cable at a first optical communication device;

receive optical and laser data of a second optical transceiver from the second optical transceiver which is coupled to a second end of the fiber optic cable at a second optical communication device; and

diagnose the received data from the first and second optical transceivers to determine an electrical and optical operational status of the fiber optic cable and the first and second optical transceivers.

37. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the operational status includes at least one of normal cable condition, degraded cable condition and failed cable condition.

38. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the optical data includes at least one of optical power information that includes at least one of optical transmit power and optical receive power.

39. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the laser data includes laser information that includes one of laser transmit current, laser transmit optical power, and photodiode optical energy.

40. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 36, wherein the data is provided over a standard protocol that includes at least one of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative-Specification).