About Free SmartOLT

What it is

Free SmartOLT is a hosted panel where an internet provider manages its OLTs and the ONUs behind them. You open it in a browser. There is nothing to install on your own server.

The panel reads your OLT, shows every ONU with its status and optical signal, lets you authorize new ONUs, and raises an alarm when something drops.

Who it is for

It is for ISP owners and technicians who run GPON networks on Huawei MA5600T series OLTs and want one place to see and manage their ONUs.

You do not need a public address on the OLT. If the OLT is behind a MikroTik router, the router can connect to our built in OpenVPN server and the panel reaches the OLT through that tunnel.

What it costs

It is free.

• No card is asked for.
• There is no trial period.
• There is no limit on the number of OLTs or ONUs.

The rule is one panel per email address.

What it does today

• Overview: online, offline and waiting ONUs on one screen, with the last 24 hours as a chart. See the dashboard guide.
• ONU list: search and filter by name, serial number, zone, PON port, status or signal. See managing ONUs.
• Authorization: new ONUs appear by themselves, and presets fill in VLANs and profiles. See authorizing an ONU.
• ONU actions: reboot, disable, enable, delete, change VLAN or speed, replace by serial number, alone or in bulk.
• Alarms: OLT not answering, PON port problems and bad signals. See alarms and events.
• History: signal and status history, graphs and reports. See graphs and reports.
• Records: zones, splitters, ONU types, speed profiles, maps, tickets and an activity log.
• OLT configuration backups: on a schedule or by hand. See configuration backups.

Honest limits

• Features depend on the model. Huawei MA5600T models retain configuration and monitoring. New Huawei families, ZTE and V-SOL start with read-only GPON monitoring. See supported OLTs.
• Not every model and firmware version has been tested. If something does not read correctly on your OLT, please tell us.
• Data is read every 5 minutes. The panel is not a live view. You can press Refresh on an OLT to read it at once.
• An OLT that keeps failing is read less often. After several failed reads in a row the panel slows down. If the OLT refuses the login, automatic reads stop until you save the OLT settings again, so the login on the OLT does not get locked.
• History is kept for a limited time. Signal and traffic history is kept for 30 days and status changes for 180 days.
• The panel talks to the OLT over Telnet. SNMP is optional and read only.
• Restoring a whole OLT configuration from a backup is not built in. You can download the backup and use it yourself.

How it is hosted

Each ISP gets its own panel at its own address, for example yourname.freesmartolt.com, and its own database. Your OLTs, ONUs and records are not mixed with those of another ISP.

OLT passwords are stored encrypted. More detail is on the security page and in the privacy policy.

Get started

Create your free panel, then follow getting started. Questions go to support@ispledger.com.