Monitoring Solution for Optical Grid Architectures

Today there are very few open source optical network monitoring solutions available for grid users and even network operators. Most of the available optical monitoring solutions are proprietary and single vendor solutions. Even the existing software is often limited in functionality and extremely difficult to apply in a distributed grid environment. grid users can only successfully use optical grid infrastructures spanning over multiple domains if they have efficient monitoring and fault detection tools available to them. In this chapter we present a tool for monitoring wavelengths. Our approach recognizes and facilitates the ability of independent networks to set policies while facilitating the status and performance monitoring by users interested in optical paths connecting distributed resources.