Module: 1. Fiber Optic Applications: Design Process
Appreciating What Fiber Optics Can Do
Identifying the Requirements
Key Network Parameters
Producing a Link Specification
Proving the Design Meets the Specification
Installing, Testing and Troubleshooting Procedures
Module: 2. Fiber Plant
Operational System Parameters
Fiber Optics Design Principles
Optical Sources and Modulation
On-Off Keying (OOK) transmission
Coherent modulation
Vertical Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs),Lasers
Fiber Types and selection
Multimode
Restricted Mode Launch Bandwidth
Laser Optimized Multimode
Single-mode
Fiber cable construction
Course Wavelangth Division Multiplexing (CWDM)
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing ( DWDM)
CWDM vs DWDM performance and cost comparison
Workshop 1: Selecting Fiber Types
Deploying Wavelength Division multiplexing and Switching options
Hardware Selection Factors
Connectors and Splicing Options
Core Network Solutions
Intermediate and Metro Network Cross Connect
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Power consideration in Multiplex solutions
Repeaters
Access Solutions: PON, FTTB, FTTC, FTTH
Workshop 2: Plant Specification for Wavelength Division Multiplexed system
Module: 3. Calculating Key Design Parameters
The Design Metrics
Selecting the values and the bounds
Accumulating and estimating aggregate loads
Predicting future load changes
Matching User Requirements to Transport Loading
Identifying service protection requirements
Theory And Principles of Fiber Optics Link Budgets
Cable Construction
Recommended Cable Types
Cable Selection
Termination Methods
Fusion Splicing Methods
Mechanical Splicing
Loss Analysis
Link Loss Calculation
Cost Comparison Model
System Redundancy and Availability
Workshop 3: Point to Point Link Calculation
Module: 4. Selecting the Right Technology Solutions
Availability and reliability
Physical and Logical Network Topologies
Add Drop Multiplexing
Physical Plant Layout: Fiber Counts/Types
Operational Service Requirements
Deciding how the Transport Service Will be Controlled
Configuration and Provisioning
Service protection considerations
G.8081/Y.1353 Definitions and Terminology for Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASON)
G.807/Y.1302 Requirements for the Automatic Switched Transport Network (ASTN)
G.8080/Y.1304 Architecture for the Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON)
Module: 5. Optical Transport Physical Transmission
Optical transport network interface structure
Multiplexing/mapping principles and bit rates
Optical transport module (OTM-n.m, OTM-nr.m, OTM-0.m)
Physical specification of the ONNI
Optical channel (OCh)
Optical channel transport unit
Optical channel data unit
Optical channel payload unit
OTM overhead signal (OOS)
Overhead description
Maintenance signals
Workshop 4: Practical Design Exercises
· Producing Aggregation Requirements from Access Demand Specification
· Migration of SDH to OTN
· Designing Aggregation Service
· Designing Core Service
Module: 6. Signal Structures Up to 100 Gbit/s
Mapping of client signals
Concatenation
Mapping ODUk signals into the ODTUjk signal
Forward error correction using 16-byte interleaved RS (255,239) codecs
ODUk tandem connection monitoring (TCM) overhead
OPUk Multiplex Overhead
Basic signal structure,
ODTU12, ODTU13, ODTU23,
OPUk Multiplex Overhead,
OPUk Multiplex Structure Identifier (MSI)
OPU2 Multiplex Structure Identifier (MSI)
OPU3 Multiplex Structure Identifier (MSI)
OPUk Payload Structure Identifier Reserved overhead (RES)
ODU1 into ODU2 multiplexing
ODU2 into ODU3 multiplexing
ODU1 into ODU3 multiplexing
Automatic Protection Switching
Workshop 5: ROADM System
Module: 7. Testing Procedures for Installation and Design Validation
Optical System impairments
Optical Testing and Measurements
Reasons for Testing
Types of Test Measurements
Testing Guidelines
Error Ratios
Spectrum testing
Specifying Test & Troubleshooting Procedures
Module: 8. Management and Troubleshooting
G.874, Management aspects of the optical transport network element
G.874.1, Optical transport network (OTN) protocol neutral management information model for the network element view
G.875, Optical transport network (OTN) management information model for the network element view
Service using 10G Ethernet and 100G Ethernet
Module: 9. Review and Evaluation