Open Cable Management for Sensing Applications
Building on the Open Cable Management Working Group's standardised approaches for managing wet plant elements, this group extends API standards to cover State of Polarisation (SOP) parameters for sensing applications.
Why join this Working Group?
Help define a common specification for an Application Programming Interface (API) that extends the existing API standard to simplify adoption of SOP as a sensing standard.
- Standards Development: Contribute to a subsea optical fibre sensing standard incorporating Open APIs
- Interoperability: Help define standard APIs for SOP parameters from network elements like transponders
Group Objectives
Explore the key objectives driving this working group's activities. These priorities shape the group's focus and inform the outputs and resources it produces for the subsea cable community.
API Standardisation: Develop recommendations for standard APIs for network elements capable of sensing using State of Polarisation (SOP)
Technical Framework: Address key areas including functionality, configuration, performance monitoring, and security
Protocol Standards: Define standards for REST, Websockets, and gRPC protocols while minimising protocol variety to simplify industry adoption
Implementation Guidelines: Create guidelines for Open Cable Network Management on existing cables used for sensing
Working Group Outputs
View the outputs from this working group. Documents marked as members only are accessible exclusively to SubOptic Association members—all other resources are publicly available.
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