Most of the GPON platforms I have looked into support that. We use ZTE and
it has this info, shows whether an ONU thats offline was due to power loss
or signal loss.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:07 AM Matt Hoppes <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Do the ONU support dying gasp functionality? Where they can send back a I
> just lost power message?
>
> On Feb 20, 2019, at 7:53 AM, Chris Fabien <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Your first troubleshooting step is look at customers down and why they are
> down. Most OLTs will track whether an ONU is offline due to power loss vs
> signal loss.
>
> When you get to finding an actual break, if the fiber is dark from the
> customer end you ban use a normal otdr. They also make otdr that can run
> trace on an active PON by using a high wavelength like 1650nm.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 7:22 AM Matt Hoppes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> With wireless - it's very easy to determine where the source of an
>> outage is.... can I access the local side?  If so, then dispatch to
>> remote side..... if not, then dispatch to local side.
>>
>> How do you do that with fiber?  Especially GPON?  How do I know if an
>> outage is caused by "power out to end points" or if something just
>> "drove through/dug through my fiber lines", without dispatching someone
>> first to the local side to shoot an OTDR?
>>
>> Basically, how do you efficiently dispatch to resolve an issue in a
>> timely fashion with fiber?  Is there a way to shoot an OTDR from an SFP
>> optic so you know if it's a break or a remote end issue before even
>> dispatching a tech?
>>
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