Patent 7817917 was granted and assigned to Sprint on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides a system and method for monitoring and providing settings to nodes in a telecommunications fiber network. The method and system reviews alarm and threshold settings of nodes and in the network. If the alarm and threshold settings a node are not within set standards, the standard alarm and threshold settings may be provided to the nodes. The method and system of the invention also calculates span loss between nodes in a telecommunications fiber network and the amplification levels of nodes in the network.