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Basic Optical Communications Technology P-1
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1. Preparatory Knowledge4
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2. Optical Fiber 8
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Light rays propagate within different media at a different velocities. The characteristics
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that describes property of a media is called refractive index.

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Refractive index n is determined by the following formula: n=/.

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strikes: 1=3, n1 sin1=n2 sin2.
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90, the light will not enter another medium (air in this example), and the angle of
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incidence then is called the critical angle c. If we continue to increase the angle of
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Light is a kind of transverse wave, that is, the direction of vibration of the electromagnetic
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field of light is vertical to the direction of propagation. If the direction of vibration of light
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vibration due to external influence, and light intensity at a direction prevails over that at
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other directions. Such light is called partially polarized light.
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The material of the prism (glass) or water has different indices of refraction (n) for light of
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different wavelengths (corresponding to different colors). As a result, the propagation
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velocity and the refractive angle of the light differ and lights of different colors spread
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Fiber is of cylindrical form and consists of the core, cladding and coating.
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Core is lying at the center of the fiber, it is made from high purity silicon dioxide, mixing
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trivial amount of doping agent. The doping agent here is to reduce the refractive index
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(n2) of the cladding and make it slightly lower than that of the core.
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Step index fiber: the refractive indices of the core and cladding are evenly distributed along
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the radius of the fiber, and the refractive rate changes abruptly at the interface between
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Light is propagated in the fiber as an independent group of light ray. In other words, we
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will find out, if we could look into the fiber, that a group of light beam propagates at
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mode, or fundamental mode; other beams which propagate along an angle from the
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central axis are called high-order modes.
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When the size of the fiber (mainly the diameter of core d1) is far larger than the optical
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wavelength (about 1 micrometer), there will be tens of or even hundreds of transmission
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Attenuation or loss is an important constraint factor of fiber for the propagation of optical
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Different frequencies and modes in the optical pulse have different group velocities.
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Therefore, these frequency components and modes reach the fiber terminals at different
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time, and result in optical pulse stretching, which is the dispersion of fiber.
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dispersion. Mode dispersion is mainly associated with multimode fiber.
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Chromatic dispersion is the sum of material dispersion and waveguide dispersion. All two
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depend on wavelength. Chromatic dispersion is the different light speed in fiber according
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to the light wavelength. In vacuum, the light propagate at the same speed, in a certain
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medium, such as quartz crystal silicon dioxide, however, different wavelength has different
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propagation speed. This diagram is the dispersion curve of the different SMF.
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Light can be polarized in vertical and horizontal. Because of geometric imperfection of the
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fiber. PMD is caused by slight fiber asymmetry. Different Polarization travel at different
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speed. PMD is statistical in nature. Large variation in PMD values can be observed during
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the life cycle of a fiber. Additional stress can be applied to a fiber during transportation
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operator. Cable can be crushed, stressed, or physically damaged during installation. Cable
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Optical pulse from LD is not monochromatic, it is composed of many wavelengths or
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colors. The chromatic dispersion in the fiber causes different wavelength to travel at
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When actual wavelength is smaller than cutoff wavelength, there will be several modes
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transmitted in the SMF, thus assuming multimode characteristics. To avoid mode noise and
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wavelength conditions can ensure single-mode transmission in minimum fiber length,
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In fiber, not all luminous energy is transmitted via core, but some luminous energy is
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MFD (or effective area) of the transmission fiber, the larger the better.
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G.652 fiber is one of the single-mode optical fiber defined by recommendation G.652. this
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fiber also be called conventional SMF. G.652 fiber has the zero-dispersion wavelength
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All media are non-linear in nature. However, on most occasions, the non-linear
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characteristics are rather negligible to be perceived. However, the non-linear characteristics
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Assume that the frequency of incident light is 1, and the molecular vibration frequency of
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the medium is v, then the frequency of scattered light s=1-v and as=1+v. This
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We call the phenomenon that the refractive index of a medium changes with the variation
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of light intensity Kerr effect. In a single-mode fiber, Kerr effect appears as self-phase
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change of optical pulse. This effect is called self-phase modulation (SPM).
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The frequency of the new wavelength is the combination of the tree, as shown in the
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following formula: flnm=flfnfm.

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occurrence of FWM requires phase match of signal lights. When various signal lights are
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transmitted near zero dispersion of the fiber, the group velocities of optical signals with
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A dielectric thin film filter is composed of several dozens of layers of dielectric films with
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different materials, different refractive indices and different thickness.

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film interfering filter can provide a pass band to a certain range of wavelengths, and
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provide a block band to other wavelengths, so as to form the filter characteristics as
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loss, reasonable path interval and stable temperature which is better than 0.0005nm/C.
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Fiber grating is formed by means of manual introduction of a periodic refractive index
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variation along the length of a section of fiber. Fiber grating is a space phase fiber grating
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formed in the core by means of the optical sensitivity of the fiber material (the permanent
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fiber grating can be divided into uniform grating and non-uniform grating. Uniform
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Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is a plane waveguide device on the basis of optical
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integration technology. The typical manufacturing process is to d brought into the lab for
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number of channels and flattened passband etc., making it very suitable for the superhigh-
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The basic working principle of this device is shown in the figure above. Input light with an
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interval of 50G can be divided into odd and even groups by means of an interleaver with
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interval of 100G; finally, the input light is demultiplexed by means of a common
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Optical coupler is a device for combining the lights from different fibers; and optical
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splitter, just as it name implies, is a device for splitting the optical signals to several fibers.
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In fiber-optic communication links, light is reflected from any components -connector,
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passive device and receiver and so on inserted into the optical path. If the backreflection
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light enters a laser or optical amplifier, the performance of this device will degrade. Isolator
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It is the basic device for optical communication, the optical switches have many
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optical switch can be used to realize the protective switchover. The signals are switched to
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Dynamic Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM): The dynamic OADM can add/drop one
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Optical cross connection (OXC): It represents a new core technology in the network. OXC
means the high density network and any end-to-end optical cross connection. It can
implement many functions, from simple network protection to dynamic optical path
management.

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1) Dielectric Thin Film Filter
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SDH Principle P-4
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SDH is the abbreviation of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy.
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SDH is a transmission system (protocol) which defines the characteristic of digital signals,
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SDH Principle P-5
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PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy) electrical interfaces
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There are only some regional standards: European Series, North American Series
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methods. This makes it difficult for international interconnection.
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So equipment at the two ends of a transmission link must be provided by the same
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SDH electrical interfaces
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method, line interface, etc. So SDH equipment of different vendors can be easily
interconnected.
SDH optical interfaces
Line interfaces (here refers to optical interface) adopt universal standards. Line
coding of SDH signals is only universal scrambling. Therefore the opposite-terminal
equipment can be interconnected with SDH equipment of different vendors via
standard descrambler alone.

SDH Principle P-6
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As PDH system adopts asynchronous multiplexing method, the locations of the low-rate
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signals are not regular nor fixed when they are multiplexed into higher-rate signals. That is
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to say, the locations of the lower signals are unable to be identified from the higher speed
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signals. Therefore, low-rate signals can not be directly added/dropped from PDH high-rate
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signals. For example, 2Mb/s signals can not be directly added/dropped from 140Mb/s
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signals. Here arise two problems:
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Adding/dropping low-rate signals from high-rate signals must be conducted level
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by level. This not only enlarges the size and increases cost, power consumption and
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complexity of equipment, but also decreases the reliability of the equipment.
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multiplexing/de-multiplexing processes will increase and transmission performance
will deteriorate. This is unbearable in large capacity transmission. That's the reason
M why the transmission rate of PDH system has not being improved further.
No universal network management interface in PDH system
Different parts of the network may use different network management systems,
which are obstacles in forming an integrated telecommunication management
system (TMN).

SDH Principle P-7
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As low-rate SDH signals are multiplexed into the frame structure of high-rate SDH signals
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via byte interleaved multiplexing method, their locations in the frame of high-rate SDH
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signal are fixed and regular, or say, predictable. Therefore, low-rate SDH signals, e.g.
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155Mb/s, (Synchronous Transport Module STM-1 ), can be directly added to or dropped
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from high-rate signals, e.g., 2.5Gb/s (STM-16 ). This simplifies the multiplexing and de-
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multiplexing processes of signals and makes SDH hierarchy especially suitable for high rate
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low-rate tributary signals (e.g., 2Mb/s ) can also be multiplexed into SDH signal frame
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(STM-N). Their locations in STM-N frame are also predictable. So low-rate tributary signals
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the above process of directly adding/dropping low-rate SDH signals to/from high-rate SDH
signals. Here it refers to direct adding/dropping of low-rate tributary signals, such as 2Mb/s,
M 34Mb/s, and 140Mb/s, to/from SDH signals. This saves lots of multiplexing/de-multiplexing
equipment (back-to-back equipment), enhances reliability, and reduces signal impairment,
and the cost, power consumption and complexity of the equipment. Adding/dropping of
services is further simplified.

SDH Principle P-8
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PDH OAM function
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In the frame structure of PDH signals, there are few overhead bytes used for
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operation, administration and maintenance (OAM). The fact that few overhead
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control, and alarm analyzing and locating of the transmission network.
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Abundant overhead bits for operation, administration and maintenance (OAM)
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the network monitoring function, i.e. automatic maintenance. Some redundancy
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few overhead bytes are arranged in PDH signals. For example, in the frame
structure of PCM30/32 signals, only the bits in TS0 and TS16 time slots are used for
M OAM function.
The abundant overheads in SDH signals account for 1/20 of the total bytes in a
frame. It greatly enhances the OAM function and reduces the cost of system
maintenance that occupies most of the overall cost of telecommunication
equipments. The overall cost of SDH system is less than that of PDH system and
estimated to be only 65.8% of that of the later.

SDH Principle P-9
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SDH has high compatibility, which means that the SDH transmission network and the
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existing PDH transmission network can work together while establishing SDH transmission
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network. SDH network can be used for transmitting PDH services, as well as signals of
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other hierarchies, such as asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) signals and FDDI signals.
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module (STM-1) of SDH signals in SDH network can accommodate three PDH digital signal
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hierarchies and other hierarchies such as ATM, FDDI and DQDB. This reflects the forward
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and backward compatibility of SDH and guarantees smooth transitions from PDH to SDH
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network and from SDH to ATM.
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How does SDH accommodate signals of these hierarchies? It simply multiplexes the low-
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boundary of the network (e.g. SDH/PDH start point) and then de-multiplexes them at the
boundary of the network (end point). In this way, digital signals of different hierarchies can
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SDH Principle P-10
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Low bandwidth utilization ratio
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One significant advantage of SDH is that system reliability is greatly enhanced
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(highly automatic OAM) since many overhead bytes for OAM function are
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employed in SDH signals. To transmit the same amount of valid information, PDH
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signals occupy less frequency bandwidth (transmission rate) than SDH signals, i.e.
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PDH signals use lower rate. In other words, STM-1 occupies a frequency bandwidth
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larger than that needed by PDH E4 signals (they have the same amount of
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Complex mechanism of pointer justification
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the pointer function increases the complexity of the system. Most of all, it
generates a kind of special jitter in SDH system ---- a combined jitter caused by
M pointer justification. This jitter will deteriorate the performance of low-rate signals
being de-multiplexed.
Influence of excessive use of software on system security
One of the features of SDH is its highly automatic OAM, which means that
software constitutes a large proportion in the system. As a result, SDH system is
vulnerable to computer viruses, manual mis-operation and software fault on
network layer.

SDH Principle P-11
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SDH Principle P-12
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ITU-T defines the frames of STM-N as rectangle block frame structure in unit of byte (8bit).
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The frame structure of STM-N signals is 9 rows 270N columns. The N here is equal to
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the N in STM-N, ranging from 1, 4, 16, 64, and 256. The N indicates that this signal is
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multiplexed by N STM-1 signals via byte interleaved multiplexing. This explains that the
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frame structure of STM-1 signals is a block structure of 9 rows 270 columns. When N
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STM-1 signals are multiplexed into STM-N signal via byte interleaved multiplexing, only the
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columns of STM-1 signals are multiplexed via byte interleaved multiplexing. While the
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number of rows remains constantly to be 9. It is known that signals are transmitted bit-by-
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bit in lines. Then what is the sequence of transmission? The principle for SDH signal frame
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transmission is: the bytes (8-bit) within the frame structure is transmitted bit-by-bit from
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After one frame is completed, the next frame will start.
ITU-T defines the frequency to be 8000 frames per second for all levels in STM hierarchy.
M That means the frame length or frame period is a constant value of 125us. Constant frame
period is a major characteristic of SDH signals. The constant frame period makes the rates
of STM-N signals regular. For example, the data rate of STM-4 transmission is constantly 4
times as that of STM-1, and STM-16 is 4 times of STM-4 and 16 times of STM-1. Such
regularity of SDH signals makes it possible to directly add/drop low-rate SDH signals
to/from high-rate SDH signals, especially for high-capacity transmission.

SDH Principle P-13
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SDH Principle P-14
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The Information Payload is a place in the STM-N frame structure to store various
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information code blocks to be transmitted by STM-N. It functions as the "wagon box" of
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time basis during transmission, supervisory overhead bytes ---- Path Overhead (POH) bytes
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are added into the signals when the low-rate signals are packed. As one part of payload,
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transmitted on the SDH network. The POH is in charge of monitoring, administrating and
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controlling (somewhat similar to a sensor) the path performances for the packed cargoes
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63 2Mb/s signals. In other words, STM-1 can be regarded as a transmission path divided
into 63 bypaths. Each bypath, which is equal to a low-rate signal path, transmits
M corresponding low-rate signals. The function of the Path Overhead is to monitor the
transmission condition of these bypaths. The 63 2Mb/s paths multiplex and form the path
of STM-1 signals that can be regarded as a "section" here. Paths refer to corresponding
low-rate tributary signals. The function of POH is to monitor the performance of these low-
rate signals transmitted via the STM-N on the SDH network. This is consistent with the
analogy in which the STM-N signal is regarded as a truck and the low-rate signals are
packed and loaded onto the truck for transmission.

SDH Principle P-15
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The Section Overhead (SOH) refers to the auxiliary bytes which is necessary for network
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operation, administration and maintenance (OAM) to guarantee normal and flexible
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transmission of Information Payload. For example, the Section Overhead can monitor the
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impairment condition of all "cargoes" in STM-N during transmission. The function of POH
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is to locate the certain impaired cargo in case impairments occurred. SOH implements the
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sections and layers. Then, what's the difference between RSOH and MSOH? In fact, they
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have different monitoring domains. For example, if STM-16 signals are transmitted in the
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RSOH, MSOH and POH provide SDH signals with monitoring functions for different layers.
M For a STM-16 system, the RSOH monitors the overall transmission performance of the
STM-16 signal; the MSOH monitors the transmission performances of each STM-1 signal;
and the POH monitors the transmission performances of each packaged low-rate tributary
signal (e.g. 2Mb/s) in STM-1. Through these complete monitoring and management
functions for all levels, you can conveniently conduct macro (overall) and micro (individual)
supervision over the transmission status of the signal and easily locate and analyze faults.

SDH Principle P-16
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The Administrative Unit Pointer within column 9 N of row 4 of the STM-N frame is 9
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N bytes in total. What's the function of AU-PTR? We have mentioned before those low-
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predictable, i.e. regular. The predictability can be achieved via the pointer overhead bytes
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function in the SDH frame structure. The AU-PTR indicates the exact location of the first
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byte of the information payload within the STM-N frame so that the information payload
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indicator (the value of the pointer). Let's make it easier. Suppose that there are many
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goods stored in a warehouse in unit of pile. Goods (low-rate signals) of each pile are
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regularly arranged (via byte interleaved multiplexing). We can locate a piece of goods
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or say, as long as the location of the first piece of goods is known, the precise location of any
M piece within the pile can be directly located according to the regularity of their
arrangement. In this way you can directly carry (directly add/drop) a given piece of goods
(low-rate tributary) from the warehouse. The function of AU-PTR is to indicate the location
of the first piece of goods within a given pile.
In fact, the pointer is further classified into higher order pointer and low order pointer. The
higher order pointer is AU-PTR while the lower order pointer is TU-PTR (Tributary Unit
Pointer). The function of TU-PTR is similar to that of AU-PTR except that the former
indicates smaller "piles of goods".

SDH Principle P-17
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SDH multiplexing includes three types: multiplexing of lower-order SDH signals into higher-
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order SDH signals and multiplexing of low-rate tributary signals (e.g. 2Mb/s, 34Mb/s and
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The second type of multiplexing from Low to high rate SDH signals is conducted
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and 4STM-4-->STM-16. after the multiplexing, the rate of the higher-level STM-N
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signals is 4 times that of the next lower-level STM-N signals. During the byte
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multiplexed via interleaved multiplexing based on their original values.
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SDH Principle P-18
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ITU-T defined a complete multiplexing structure, through which digital signals of three
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multiplexing units denote their corresponding signal levels.
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The pointer value constantly locates the start point of VC within the TU or AU. So
that the receiving end can correctly separate the corresponding VC.
SDH multiplexing, a relatively simple concept, is the procedure by which the TUs
are organized into the higher order VC or the AUs are organized into STM-N via
byte interleaving.

SDH Principle P-19
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First, the 140Mb/s PDH signals are adapted via bit rate justification (bit stuffing
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140Mb/s PDH signals. After being processed via bit rate justification techniques,
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service signals of various rates involved in SDH multiplexing must be loaded into a
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standard container corresponding to the rate level of the signal: 2Mb/s---C-12,
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frame frequency of 8000-frame per second.

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added in front of the C-4 block frame during multiplexing in order to monitor the
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140Mb/s path signals. Then the signals become a VC-4 information structure. The
virtual container, a kind of information structure whose integrity is always
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independent unit (cargo package). It can be flexibly and conveniently
added/dropped at any point of the path for synchronous multiplexing and cross-
connection processing. Now you might get the idea that VC-4 is in fact the
information payload of the STM-1 frame. The process of packing PDH signals into
C and adding the corresponding path overhead to form the information structure
of VC is called mapping.

SDH Principle P-20
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By adding an Administrative Unit Pointer --- AU-PTR before the VC-4, the signal is
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The function of AU-PTR is to indicate the location of the higher order VC within the
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STM frame. Under the pointer function, the higher order VC is allowed to "float"
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within the STM frame, i.e. the frequency offsets and phase differences to a certain
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degree between VC-4 and AU-4 are tolerable. Because the AU-PTR is outside of the
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that the AU-PTR can be accurately found in the corresponding location. Then the
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One or more AUs with fixed locations within the STM frame form an AUG ----
Administrative Unit Group. The location of the first byte of the VC-4 with respect
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AUG.
From AUG (N) to STM-N
The last step is to add corresponding SOH to AU-4 to form STM-N signals. During
being multiplexed, the N AUGs are one-byte interleaved into this structure and
have a fixed phase relationship with respect to the STM-N.

SDH Principle P-21
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From 34Mb/s to C3
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SDH Principle P-22
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From VC3 to TU3
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For the convenience of locating VC-3 at the receiving and separating it from the
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the VC-3 frame. Then what is the function of a tributary pointer? The TU-PTR is
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the tributary unit TU. It is similar to an AU-PTR that indicates the location of the
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From TU3 to TUG3
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From TUG3 to C4, VC4 and STM-N
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multiplexing method. The TUG-3 is a 9-row by 86-column structure. Two columns
of stuffed bits are added to the front of the composite structure of 3 TUG-3 to
form a C-4 information structure.
The last step is to multiplex C-4 into STM-N. This is similar to the process of
multiplexing 140Mb/s signals into STM-N signals: C-4-->VC-4-->AU-4-->AUG--
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SDH Principle P-23
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At present, the most frequently used multiplexing method is multiplexing of 2Mb/s signals
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into STM-N signals. It is also the most complicated method of multiplexing PDH signals
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C-12 via rate adaptation.
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To monitor on a real-time basis the performance of each 2Mb/s path signal during
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information structure. The LP-POH (lower order path overhead) is added to the
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notch in the top left corner of each basic frame. Since the VC can be regarded as
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an independent entity, dispatching of 2Mb/s services later is conducted in unit of
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From VC12 to TU12
For correct aligning of VC-12 frames in the receiving end, a four-byte TU-PTR is
added to the four notches of the VC-12 multi-frame. Then the information
structure of the signal changes into TU-12 with 9 rows4 columns. The TU-PTR
indicates the specific location of the start point of the first VC-12 within the multi-
frame.

SDH Principle P-24
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Three TU-12 forms a TUG-2 via byte interleaved multiplexing. The TUG-2 has the
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of the structure. The TUG-3 is a 9-row by 86-column structure with the first two
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SDH Principle P-25
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Section Overhead (including Regenerator Section Overhead ---- RSOH and
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As mentioned before, the functions of overhead are to implement layered monitoring
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management for SDH signals. The monitoring is classified into section layer monitoring and
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monitoring is further classified into higher order path layer and lower order path layer.
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section overhead further monitors each of the 16 STM-1. Furthermore, the higher order
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path overhead monitors the VC-4 of each STM-1 and the lower order path overhead can
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monitor each of the 63 VC-12 in the VC-4. Hence the multistage monitoring functions
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different overhead bytes.

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Like a pointer, the function of the frame bytes is alignment. The first step is to properly
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extract each STM-N frame from the received continuous signal stream at the receiver. The
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function of the bytes A1 and A2 is to locate the start of the STM-N frame. So the receiver
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can align and extract the STM-N frame from the information stream via these two bytes
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and further align a specific lower-rate signal within the frame via the pointers.
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How does the receiver align the frames via the A1 and A2 bytes? The A1 and A2 have
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fixed value, i.e. fixed bit patterns: A1: 11110110 (f6H) and A2: 00101000(28H). The
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receiver monitors each byte in the stream. After detecting 3N successive f6H bytes
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followed by 3N 26H bytes (there are three A1 and three A2 bytes within an STM-1 frame),
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the receiver determines that an STM-N frame starts to be received. By aligning the start of
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STM-N signals shall be scrambled before being transmitted via the line so that the receiver
can extract timing signals from the line. But the A1 and A2 framing bytes shall not be
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If the receiver doesn't receive A1 and A2 bytes within five or more successive frames
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(625us), i.e. it can't identify the start of five successive frames (identify different frames), it
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will enter out-of-frame status and generate out-of-frame alarm ---- OOF. If the OOF keeps
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for 3ms, the receiver will enter loss-of-frame status ---- the equipment will generate loss-
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of-frame alarm ---- LOF. Meanwhile, an AIS signal will be sent downward and the entire
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services will be interrupted. Under LOF status, if the receiver stays in normal frame
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alignment status again for successive 1ms or more, the equipment will restore the normal
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One of the features of SDH is its highly automatic OAM function which can conduct
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commands issue and performance auto poll to the networks element via NMT Network
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Management Terminals. SDH has some functions which are not possessed by PDH
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systems, such as real-time service allocation, alarm fault location and on-line performance
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testing. Where are these OAM data arranged to transmit? The data used for OAM
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functions, such as sent commands and checked alarm performance data, are transmitted
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via D1-D12 bytes within the STM-N frame. Thus the D1-D12 bytes provide a common data
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communication channel accessible to all SDH network elements. As the physical layer of
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the embedded control channel (ECC), the D1-D12 bytes transmit OAM information among
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the network elements and form a transmission channel of the SDH management network
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network management. D1, D2 and D3 are regenerator section DCC bytes (DCCR) with a
M rate of 364kb/s 192kb/s and are used to transmit OAM information among
regenerator section terminals. D4-D12 are multiplex section DCC bytes (DCCM) with a sum
rate of 964kb/s=576kb/s and are used to transmit OAM information among multiplex
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E1 is part of the RSOH and may be accessed at regenerators. E2 is part of the MSOH and
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man be accessed at multiplex section terminations. Each of these two bytes provides a
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64kb/s orderwire channel for voice communication, i.e. voice information is transmitted via
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This B1 byte is allocated for regenerator section error monitoring (Byte B1 is located in the
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regenerator section overhead). What is the mechanism for monitoring? First, we'll discuss the BIP-8
parity.
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and A4=00001111. The method of providing BIP-8 parity to this frame is to divide it into 4 block
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with 8 bits (one byte) in a parity unit (each byte as a block because one byte has 8 bits, the same as
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a parity unit) and to arrange these blocks. Compute the number of "1" over each column. Then fill a
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1 in the corresponding bit of the result (B) if the number is odd, otherwise fill a 0. That is, the value
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of the corresponding bit of B makes the number of "1" in the corresponding column of A1A2A3A4
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blocks even. This parity method is called BIP-8 parity. In fact this is an even parity since it guarantees
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that the number of "1" is even. B is the result of BIP-8 parity for the A1A2A3A4 block.

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The mechanism for B1 byte is: the transmitting equipment processes BIP-8 even parity over all bytes
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frame (2#STM-N) before scrambling. The receiver processes BIP-8 parity over all bits of the current
frame (1#STM-N) before de-scrambling and compares the parity result and the value of B1 in the
M next frame (2#STM-N) after de-scrambling. The different bit means the error block. According to the
number of different bits, we can monitor the number of error blocks occurred in 1#STM-N frame
during transmission.
If the B1 of the receive end has detected error blocks, the number of error blocks detected by the
B1 will be displayed in receive end performance event RS-BBE (Regenerator Section Background
Block Error). When the error bits detected by the receive end exceed a given threshold, the
equipment will report corresponding alarms. When the error bit ratio (EBR) is greater than 10E-6,
the given alarm is B1-SD. When the error bit ratio (EBR) is greater than 10E-3, B1-EXC (another
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B2 is similar to B1 in operation mechanism except that it monitors the error status of the
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multiplex section layer. The B1 byte monitors the transmission error of the complete STM-
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N frame signal. There is only one B1 byte in an STM-N frame. There are N*3 B2 bytes in an
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STM-N frame with every three B2 bytes corresponding to an STM-1 frame. The B2
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monitoring adopts BIP-24 (three bytes) method, which can at most monitor 24 error blocks
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parity method, each bit of the parity result is corresponding to a bit block. So three B3
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bytes can at most monitor 24 error blocks from an STM-N frame that occur during
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If the B2 of the receive end has detected error blocks, the number of error blocks detected
M by the B2 will be displayed in this end performance event MS-BBE (Multiplex Section
Background Block Error). At the same time, M1 will be used to report to the transmit end
that error blocks have been detected, and the transmit end will report MS-FEBBE (Multiplex
Section Far End Background Block Error) performance event and MS-REI (Multiplex Section
Remote Error Indication) alarm. When the error bits detected by the receive end exceed a
given threshold, the equipment will report corresponding alarms. When the error bit ratio
(EBR) is greater than 10E-6, the given alarm is B2-SD. When the error bit ratio (EBR) is
greater than 10E-3, B2-EXC will be given.

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If the B2 of the receive end has detected error blocks, the number of error blocks detected
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by the B2 will be displayed in this end performance event MS-BBE (Multiplex Section
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Background Block Error). At the same time, M1 will be used to report to the transmit
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end that error blocks have been detected, and the transmit end will report MS-FEBBE
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(Multiplex Section Far End Background Block Error) performance event and MS-REI
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(Multiplex Section Remote Error Indication) alarm.
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This is a message returned to its transmit end by the receive end so that the transmit end
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can get the receiving error status of the receive end. For STM-N levels this byte conveys the
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count (in the range of [0, 255]) of interleaved bit blocks that have been detected in error
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by the BIP-24N (B2). For rates of STM-16 and above, this value shall be truncated to 255.
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Two bytes are allocated for APS signaling for the protection of the multiplex section. For
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the bit assignments for these bytes and the bit-oriented protocol, please refer to G.783,
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This is an alarm message, returned to the transmit end (source) by the receive end (sink),
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which means that the receive end has detected an incoming section defect or is receiving
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the Multiplex Section Alarm Indication Signal (MS-AIS). That is, when the receive end
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detects receiving deterioration, it returns an Multiplex Section Remote defect
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Indication (MS-RDI) alarm signal to the transmit end so that the later obtains the status of
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the former. If the received b6-b8 bits of the K2 is 110, it means that this signal is an MS-
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RDI alarm signal returned by the opposite end. If the received b6-b8 bits of the K2 is 111,
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it means that this signal is an MS-AIS alarm signal received by current end. Meanwhile, the
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current end is required to send out MS-RDI signal to the opposite end, i.e. insert 110 bit
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pattern into the b6-b8 of the K2 within the STM-N signal frame to be sent to the opposite
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end. Not all deterioration results in returning MS-RDI. Current end equipment returns MS-
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We can use the extended SSM for clock protection. In this case, the different value of bits
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Bits 5 to 8 of byte S1 are allocated for Synchronization Status Messages. Table 3-1 gives
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synchronization is unknown and the other to signal that the section should not be used for
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synchronization. The remaining codes are reserved for quality levels defined by individual
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by ITU-T, enable the equipment to determine the quality of the received clock timing signal.
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This helps to determine whether or not to switch the clock source, i.e. switch to higher
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The Section Overhead is responsible for section layer OAM functions while the Path
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Overhead for path layer OAM functions. Like transporting the cargoes loaded in the
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container: not only the overall impairment status of the cargoes (SOH) but also the
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impairment status of each cargo (POH) shall be monitored.
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Overhead. In this curriculum the Higher Order Path Overhead refers to the monitoring of
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VC-4 level paths within the STM-N frame. The Lower Order Path Overhead implements the
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OAM functions for VC-12 path level, i.e. monitoring the transmission performance of
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2Mb/s signals within the STM-N frame.
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The AU-PTR pointer indicates the specific location of the start of the VC-4 within the AU-4,
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i.e. the location of the first byte of the VC-4, so that the receive end can properly extract
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VC-4 from the AU-4 according to the value of this AU-PTR. The J1 is the start of the VC-4,
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The J1 byte is used to transmit repetitively a Higher Order Path Access Point Identifier so
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that a path receiving terminal can verify its continued connection to the intended
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transmitter (this path is under continued connection). This requires that the J1 bytes of the
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received and transmit ends match. The default transmit/receive J1 byte values of the
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equipments provided by Huawei Company are HuaWei SBS. Of course the J1 byte can be
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The B3 byte is allocated for monitoring the transmission error performance of VC-4. Its
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monitoring mechanism is similar to that of the B1 and B2 except that it is used to process
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BIP-8 parity for the VC-4 frame.
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Once the receive end detects error blocks, the number of error blocks will be displayed in
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the performance monitoring event ---- HP-BBE (Higher Order Path Background Block
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transmit end that error blocks have been detected, and the transmit end will report HP-
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FEBBE (Higher-order Path Far End Background Block Error) performance event and
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HP-REI (Higher-order Path Remote Error Indication) alarm.
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When the error bits detected by the receive end exceed a given threshold, the equipment
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The C2 is allocated to indicate the composition of multiplexing structure and information
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payload of the VC frame, such as equipped or unequipped status of the path, the type of
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loaded services and their mapping method. For example, C2=00H indicates that this VC-4
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path is unequipped. Then the payload TUG-3 of the VC-4 is required to be inserted all "1" -
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--- TU-AIS and the higher order path unequipped alarm ---- HP-UNEQ appears in the
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equipment. C2=02H indicates that the payload of the VC-4 is multiplexed via a TUG
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structure multiplexing route. In China, the multiplexing of 2Mb/s signals into VC-4 adopts
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the TUG structure. To configure the multiplexing of 2Mb/s signals for Huawei equipments,
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The LPOH here refers to the path overhead of the VC-12 that monitors the transmission
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performance of the VC-12 path level, i.e. monitors the transmission status of 2Mb/s PDH
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signals within the STM-N frame. Where is the LPOH located within the VC-12? The lower
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four bytes denoted V5, J2, N2 and K4. Usually, V5 byte is the most important in LPOH.
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paths. So this byte has the functions of the G1, B3 and C2 bytes within the higher order
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path overhead. If the V5 (b1b2) of the receive end have detected error blocks, the number
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LP-BBE (Lower-order Path Background Block Error). At the same time, V5 (b3) will be used
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will report LP-FEBBE (Lower-order Path Far End Background Block Error) performance event
and LP-REI (Lower-order Path Remote Error Indication) alarm. When the error bits detected
M by the receive end exceed a given threshold, the equipment will report corresponding
alarms. When the error bit ratio (EBR) is greater than 10E-6, the given alarm is BIP-SD.
When the error bit ratio (EBR) is greater than 10E-3, BIP-EXC will be given.
Bit 8 of the V5 is allocated for the VC-12 Path Remote Defect Indication. An LP-RDI (Lower
Order Path Remote Defect Indication) is sent back to the source if either a TU-12 AIS signal
or signal failure condition is being detected by the sink. Notes: In this curriculum, RDI is
called remote deterioration indication or remote defect indication.

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The function of the pointers is aligning via which the receiver can properly extract the
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corresponding VC from the STM-N and then disassemble the VC and C packages and
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extracts the lower rate PDH signals, i.e. directly drop lower rate tributary signals from the
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incorporated into the Tributary Unit or the Administrative Unit, i.e. via the Tributary Unit
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Pointer (or Administrative Unit Pointer) attached to the VC to indicate and determine the
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start of the lower order VC frame within the TU payload ( or the start of the higher order
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VC frame within the AU payload). When relative differences occur in the phases of the
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frames and make the VC frames "float", the pointer value will be justified to ensure that it
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indicates the location of the J1 byte while for a VC-12; its TU-PTR indicates the location of
the V5 byte. The TU pointer or AU pointer provides a method of allowing flexible and
M dynamic alignment of the VC within the TU or AU frame because these two pointers are
able to accommodate differences, not only in the phases of the VC and the SDH, but also
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The AU-PTR, located in row 4 of columns 1 to 9 within the STM-1 frame, is used to
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indicate the specific location of the fist byte J1 of the VC-4 within the AU-4 payload so that
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the receiver can properly extract the VC-4. The AU-4 pointer provides a method of
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allowing flexible and dynamic alignment of the VC-4 within the AU-4 frame. Dynamic
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alignment means that the VC-4 is allowed to "float" within the AU-4 frame. Thus, the
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pointer is able to accommodate differences, not only in the phases of the VC-4 and the
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SOH, but also in the frame rates. The pointer contained in H1 and H2 designates the
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location of the byte where the VC-4 begins. The last ten bits (bits 7-16) of the pointer
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The TU pointer is used to indicate the specific location of the first byte V5 of the VC-12
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within the TU-12 payload so that the receiver can properly extract the VC-12. The TU
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the TU-12 multi-frame. The TU-PTR is located in the bytes denoted V1, V2, V3 and V4
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K2 byte is used to monitor the status of MS, which might generate MS-AIS or MS-RDI
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alarm.

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(625us), i.e. it can't identify the start of five successive frames (identify different frames), it
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will enter out-of-frame status and generate out-of-frame alarm ---- OOF. If the OOF keeps
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for 3ms, the receiver will enter loss-of-frame status ---- the equipment will generate loss-
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of-frame alarm ---- LOF. Meanwhile, an AIS signal will be sent downward and the entire
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services will be interrupted. Under LOF status, if the receiver stays in normal frame
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alignment status again for successive 1ms or more, the equipment will restore the normal
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WDM Principle P-1
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Contents
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WDM Overview..........Page4
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WDM Transmission Media ........................Page16
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WDM Key Technologies ......Page24
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About this course:
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This course mainly introduces the basic knowledge of WDM technologies,
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WDM Principle P-3
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Reference:
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OTC000003 WDM principle

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ITU-T G.694.1 and G.694.2 (about the wavelength distribution)
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ITU-T G.671 (about the optical passive components)
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WDM Principle P-5
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SDM increases the transmission capacity linearly by adding the number of optical fibers,
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and the transmission equipment will be increased linearly, too.

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TDM keeps the same transmission medium but increases the bit rate. The equipment is
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getting more and more complicated and expensive. Additionally, the maximum
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transported capability over a fiber pair is in the range of a few 10Gbps.
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The way to scale to higher transported capacity is WDM. This technology keeps the same
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Legend:
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Freeway: Fiber

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Patrol Car: Supervisory Signal

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Gas Station: Optical Relay

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Gray Car: Client Service

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Colored Car: Service in different channels (wavelength)

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Driveway: Optical Wavelength

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Wave Division Multiplexing is a technology that utilizes the properties of refracted light
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to both combine and separate optical signals based on their wavelengths within the optical
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spectrum.
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WDM Principle P-7
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The Greek letter lambda ( ) , is often used to designate individual wavelengths.
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Key word in the content is specific wavelength. How specific ? Please refer to ITU-T series
recommendations in chapter 4.
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WDM allows for a more efficient use of existing fiber by providing multiple optical paths
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along a single (pair of) fiber (s).

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WDM allows for a greater range of protocol transmission better suited than legacy
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network for data centric applications. (E.g.. GE, ESCON, Fiber Channel, D1 video)
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WDM Principle P-8
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OTU: Access the client service and convent the wavelength complied with ITU standards.
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OMU: Multiplex several services with different wavelength into one main path signal

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ODU: Demultiplex one main path signal into several individual signals.
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OA: Amplifies the optical signal.
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OLA: Optical Line Amplifier

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OSC: Optical Supervisory Channel

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ESC: Electrical Supervisory Channel
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Unidirectional WDM system adopts two optical fibers. One only implements the
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transmission of signals in one direction while the other implements the transmission of the
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signals in the opposite direction.
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This tansmission mode is widely used in the worldwide.
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WDM Principle P-10
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Bi-directional wave WDM system utilizes only one optical fiber. The single fiber transmits
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optical signals in both directions simultaneously, and the signals in the different directions
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should be assigned on different wavelengths
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WDM Principle P-11
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Integrated system does not adopt the wavelength conversion technology, instead, it
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requires that the wavelength of the optical signals at the multiplex terminal conforms to
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the specifications for the WDM system
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The optical interface in the client equipment that could provide standard wavelength is
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Up to know the capacity is 1920Gbps at most.
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Data Transparency Transmission:

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WDM doesnt change the structure or any byte in the frame for the client signal
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Long Haul transmission: 5000km without REG / 230km long hop.
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Smooth expansion: modularization and no affect the existing services
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WDM Principle P-13
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CWDM greatly reduces the system cost while providing certain amount of wavelengths
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and transmission distance within 100 km.

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Fewer channels=cheaper hardware
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Comparison between CWDM and DWDM
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Types CWDM DWDM
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Channel Spacing 20nm 100GHz/50GHz/25GHz
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Band 1311~1611nm
C-band: 1529nm~1561nm
L-band: 1570nm~1603nm
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or Capacity 16 x 2.5Gb/s = 40G 192 x 10Gb/s = 1920G
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1. WDM System includes:________, _________, _________ and __________;
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2. CWDM system could use optical amplifiers (True or False) __________;
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3. ESC means____________________________________. Need additional wavelength
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wavelength for transmitting and receiving.
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OTU, MUX/DeMUX, OA,OSC
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False

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Electrical Supervisory Channel,False
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WDM Principle P-16
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Objectives for this chapter:
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List the characteristics of the fiber

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Classify different types of the fiber
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Outline the methods to against the factors
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WDM Principle P-17
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An optical fiber consists of two different types of solid glass the core and claddingthat
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are mixed with specific elements to adjust their refractive indices. The difference between
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the refractive indices of the two materials causes most of the transmitted light to bounce
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off the cladding and stay within the core. The critical angle requirement is met by
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controlling the angle at which the light is injected into the fiber. Two or more layers of
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protective coating around the cladding ensure that the glass can be handled without
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N1 and N2, which one is larger ?
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Band Wavelength
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Bandwidth (nm)
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Original 1260~1360 100
Extended 1360~1460
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Combining the above losses, the attenuation constant of single mode fiber at 1310nm and
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respectively. As defined in ITU-T Recommendation G.652, the attenuation constant at
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WDM Principle P-19
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Dispersion in fiber refers to a physical phenomenon of signal distortion caused when
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various modes carrying signal energy or different frequencies of the signal have different
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group velocity and disperse from each other during propagation
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WDM Principle P-20
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G.652 fiber is currently a single mode fiber for widely use, called 1310nm property optimal
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single mode fiber and also called dispersion unshifted fiber

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G.653 fiber is called dispersion shifted fiber or 1550nm property optimal fiber. By
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designing the refractive index cross section, the zero dispersion point of this kind of fiber is
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shifted to the 1550nm window to match the minimum attenuation window. This makes it
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G.655 fiber, a nonzero dispersion shifted single mode optical fiber, is similar to G.653 fiber
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WDM Principle P-21
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DCF is one special kind of optical fiber, with the negative dispersion at 1550nm window
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The dispersion coefficient is -90~-120ps/nm.km

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DCF can counter act positive dispersion while bring new insertion loss and increasing of
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1. The attenuation coefficient of G.652 fiber is __________; approximately ________
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2. The dispersion coefficient of G.655 at 1550nm window is_______________
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Coating, Cladding, Core
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G.652, G.653, G.655

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Attenuation, Dispersion, Nonlinear effect
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WDM Principle P-24
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WDM Principle P-25
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WDM Principle P-26
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WDM Principle P-27
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Output laser is controlled by input current. The variation of the modulation current causes
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the variation of output wavelength

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This variation, called modulation chirp, is actually a kind of wavelength (frequency) jitter
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inevitable for direct modulation of the sources. The chirp broadens the bandwidth of the
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emitting spectrum of the laser, deteriorates its spectrum characteristics and limits the
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WDM Principle P-28
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EA modulator adopts different structure, use stable DC current to let LD output a standard
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wavelength (complied with ITU-T). EA module act as a door that open only happens to the
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current change. In this way, the information is modulated into the wavelength
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Less chirp = Support long haul transmission (2.5Gb/s > 600km)

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High Dispersion tolerance (2.5Gb/s: 7200~12800ps/nm)

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Most widely used in DWDM
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WDM Principle P-29
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This modulator separates the light input into two equal signals which enter the two optical
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branches of the modulator respectively. These two optical branches employ an electro-
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optical material whose refractive index changes with the magnitude of the external
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electrical signal applied to it. Changes of the refractive index of the optical branches will
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result in the change variation of the signal phases. Hence, when the signals from the two
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branches recombine at the output end, the combined optical signal is an interference
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signal with varying intensity. With this method, the frequency chirp of the separated
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Long dispersion limited distance

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High cost with good performance

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WDM Principle P-30
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As a maturing technology, direct modulator and indirector modulator are widely used in
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WDM system
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WDM Principle P-31
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The EDFA amplifier is widely used in WDM system
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WDM Principle P-32
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Principle:
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The outer electrons of Er ions have 3 energy levels, where E1 is the basic state
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energy level, E2 is the metastable state energy level and E3 is the high energy level
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When high-energy pump lasers are used to excite the EDF, lots of bound electrons
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of the erbium ions are excited from E1 to E3 level, then soon dropped to the E2
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level via a non-radiation decay process (i.e. no photon but heat is released)
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fiber, particles in the metastable state are transited to the basic state via stimulated
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WDM Principle P-33
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TAP is used to spilt out a little part of energy and send it to the PD to detection
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ISO is used to make sure the signal transmit in one direction

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Pump laser has two type: with 980nm and with 1480nm
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WDM Principle P-34
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Fortunately, 1550nm is in the low attenuation window, the emergence of EDFA
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Disadvantage:
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Gain un-flatnessu
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WDM Principle P-35
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If we cannot control the gain, optical surge generates
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With AGC function:

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When add wavelengths from 1 to 40, the gain will be not changed
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When drop wavelengths from 40 to 1, the gain will be not changed also
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Key Component is the DSP that makes the nonlinear calculation
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WDM Principle P-36
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Principle:
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Fiber has wide SRS gain spectrum and a wide gain peak around a frequency 13THz lower
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than that of the pumping light. If a weak signal and a strong pumping light wave are
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transmitted through the fiber at the same time, and the wavelength of the weak signal is
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set within the Raman gain bandwidth of the strong pumping light, the weak signal can be
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amplified. Such SRS-based OA is call Raman optical amplifier. Raman optical amplifiers
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gain is the switch gain, that is, the difference between the output power when the
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amplifier is on and that when the amplifier is off
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WDM Principle P-37
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Advantage:
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The gain wavelength is determined by the pumping light wavelength

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The gain medium is the transmission fiber itself, low noise
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As the amplification is distributed along the fiber with the comparatively low signal
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power, it reduces the interference from non-linear effect, especially FWM effect
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High power is harmful for body
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Be careful when put operation on Raman
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WDM Principle P-38
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According to its application:
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BA: Booster amplifier, mainly used in the transmit end. For the hardware
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description, you will see OBU card
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LA: Line amplifier, mainly used in the amplifier station, could be recognized as
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BA+PA. For the hardware description, you will see OAU card
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PA: Pre-amplifier, mainly used in the receive end. For the hardware description, you
will see OPU card
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WDM Principle P-39
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For all the optical lights are bidirectional, the mechanisms of multiplexer and demultiplexer
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are the same. Here in after we just discuss about the multiplexer, if you reverse the
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direction, it could also be considered as a demultiplexer
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WDM Principle P-40
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Film Filter offers good stability and isolation between channels at moderate cost, but with
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a high insertion loss

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So the number of dropping wavelength is limited
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WDM Principle P-41
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The waveguides are connected to cavities at the input and output. When the light enters
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the input cavity, it is diffracted and enters the waveguide array. There the optical length
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difference of each waveguide introduces phase delays in the output cavity, where an array
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of fibers is coupled. The process results in different wavelengths having maximal
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interference at different locations, which correspond to the output ports
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WDM Principle P-42
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OSC is often used in the backbone wavelength system, and ESC is normally used in
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metropolitan system
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WDM Principle P-43
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Pumping wavelength of OA: 980nm or 1480nm.
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1310nm already defined by ITU-T for future use.

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OA fails, all signal lost, requires the supervisory signal continue to transmit alarms and
other indications.
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The receive sensitivity of the OSC unit is very good, up to -48dBm.
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WDM Principle P-44
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FA: Frame alignment
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E1 E2 : Orderwire
ALC: Automatic Level Control.
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F1 F2 F3 : transparent serials data
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D1-D12: DCC bytes, data communication channel
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WDM Principle P-45
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The optical transponder unit (OTU) multiplexes the supervisory information into the service
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channel for transmission

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The ESC reduces the investment of the OSC. It also deletes the insertion loss of the FIU.
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This lowers the cost and the power budget of optical channels
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WDM Principle P-46
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1. EDFA means:______________________; its pumping wavelength is___________;
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We can calculate noise figure by _________
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2. AWG means:______________________; TFF means:________________________;
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4. ESC support OLA station ?_______(True, False)
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WDM Principle P-47
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LD, EA, M-Z
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EDFA, Raman
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WDM Principle P-48
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S1Sn: The reference points on the fiber at transmitter optical output connector
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L e R': A reference point on the optical fiber in front of the optical input connector of
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or MPI-R: A reference point on the optical fiber in front of the OA/OD input optical
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SD1SDn: The reference points at the OA/OD optical output connector
R1Rn: The reference points at receiver optical transmitter input connector

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WDM Principle P-53
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OTN Principle P-1
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Optical transport hierarchy ....Page4
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ITU-T G.709
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ITU-T G.874
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Objectives for the first chapter:
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signal is independent of specific features of the customer, that is, independence of
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Strong scalability of the capacity: The cross-connect capacity can be expanded to
dozens of T bit/s.
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networking costs.
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mapping customer signals.
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feature information and customer/service layer, and the function description of the
network topology and layer network.

OTN Principle P-8
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OTN Principle P-9
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OTN Principle P-10
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complete function. The OTM-n.m is composed of up to n multiplexing wavelengths and OTM
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OMSn payload and OMSn overhead constitute the OMU-n.m. OTSn payload and OTSn overhead
constitute the OTM-n.m unit.
The overhead and generic management information of the optical layer units constitute the OTM
overhead signal (OOS), which is transmitted by 1-channel independent OSC in the non-associated
overhead.
The overhead of electrical layer units such as OPUk, ODUk, and OTUk are the associated channel
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OTN Principle P-14
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OTN Principle P-16
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OTN Principle P-17
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OTN Principle P-18
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OTN Principle P-19
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OTN Principle P-20
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OTN Principle P-21
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The nominal OTU3 frame rate = 255/236 x 39 813 120 kbit/s
For OTU1/2/3 frame rate, the conclusion is as follows:
OTUk rate = 255/(239-k) x STM-N frame rate
Where, k=1, 2, 3 correspond to the frame rate of STM-16, STM-64, and STM-256
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OTN Principle P-22
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OTN Principle P-25
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OTN Principle P-29
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number, from 0 to 255 (with up to 256 basic frames). For the overhead of each multi-
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frame structure, the length can be adjusted. For example, if an overhead uses the multi-
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OTN Principle P-33
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The SM overhead is composed of three bytes.
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The trail trace identifier (TTI), with the length of one byte, is located in the first byte of the
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SM overhead. It is used to transmit 64-byte OTUk-level trail trace identifier signals. The
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Byte 16 includes DAPI[0] character, with the fixed value of all zeroes.
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Byte 17-byte 31 include 15-character DAPI.

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OTN Principle P-34
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Bit Interleaved Parity-8 (BIP-8) byte is used for the detection of the OTUk-level bit error
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detection. The code is in the even parity inserted among bits. Its length is one byte, located
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in the second byte of the SM overhead. For BIP8 parity, calculate the bit in the whole
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OPUK frame area of the No.i OTUk frame to obtain the OTUk BIP-8. Insert the results to
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figure, compare this value with the DIP8 calculation results of the current frame. If both
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OTN Principle P-35
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Backward Error Indication (BEI) and Backward Incoming Alignment Error (BIAE) are used to
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return the detected bit errors to the upstream of the OTUk-level and to introduce the IAE.
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SM overhead. In the IAE status, the field is set to 1011. The bit error number and non IAE
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state is omitted, insert the bit error number (0-8). Other six values may be caused by some
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irrelevant status. It should be explained as 0 bit error and BIAE inactivation.
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The backward defect indication (BDI) is used for OTUk-level to return the signal invalidity
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status detected in the terminal sink function. The length is one bit. It is located in Bit5 of
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byte3 of the SM overhead. When the BDI is set to 1, it indicates OTUk backward defect.
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to notify the peer S-CMEP at the egress point that the alignment error is detected in the
introduction signals. The S-CMEP egress point can use this information to stress the bit
M error number. These bit error may be caused by the ODUk frame phase change at the TC
ingress point. The IAE length is one bit. It is located in bit6 of byte 3 of the SM overhead.
The IAE bit is set to 1 to indicate the frame alignment error. Otherwise, it is set to 0.
The last two bits of the SM is reserved, and is set to 00.
S-Connection Monitoring End Point (CMEP): Section-Connection monitoring end-points
represent end points of trails and correspond as such with the trail termination functions.

OTN Principle P-36
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General Communication Channel 0 (GCC0) is used to support the general communication
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between OTUk terminals. The length is two bytes. It is located in Column 11 to Column 12
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of line 1. The GCC0 is the transparent channel. The format specification is not discussed
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located in column 13-column 14 of line 1. The reserved overhead is set to all zeroes.
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OTN Principle P-37
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The PM is similar to the SM.
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The PM overhead is composed of three bytes. It is located in column 10-column 12 of line
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3. The PM is composed of 1-byte TTI, 1-byte BIP-8, 4-bit BDI, 1-bit BEI, and 3-bit STAT.
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The definitions of TTI / BIP-8 / BEI / BDI are similar to those in SM. These parts support the
channel monitor.
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The PM overhead does not support IAE and BIAE function. In addition, BIP-8 of the PM
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overhead is parity of the whole OPUk frame (column 15- 3824). But, the parity position is
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in the PM overhead, which differs from the BIP regenerated node in the BIP8.The BEI field
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needs not to support the BIAE function. Therefore, one value is less that of the SM
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overhead to indicate the return of the IAE state. Four bits of BEI fields in the PM overhead
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OTN Principle P-38
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The STAT field is used for the maintenance signals of ODUk channel level. The length is 3
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bits. It is located in the least significant 3 bits of Column 12 of Line 3.

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The table describes the meaning of the STAT field.
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OTN Principle P-39
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The ODUk overhead defines TCM1-TCM6 of six domains. The Tandem Connection
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Monitoring (TCM) overhead supports the monitoring of the ODUk connection. It is used to
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the scenarios such as one or more optical UNI to UNI, NNI to NNI serial line connection
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monitoring, linear and ring protection switch sub-layer monitoring, the fault location of the
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optical channel serial line connection, and the service delivery quality acceptance. TCM6-
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TTIi / BIP-8i / BEIi / BIAEi / BDIi support the TCMi sub-layer monitoring, where, i ranges
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from 1 to 6. The definitions and functions of these parts are the same as the
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OTN Principle P-40
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STAT is used for the maintenance signal of TCMi sub layer, whether the IAE error exists in
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the source TC-CMEP, whether the source TC-CMEP is activated. The length is 3 bits. It is
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located in the least significant 3 bits of the TCMi field.
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It indicates the meaning of the STAT field.

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OTN Principle P-41
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Along one ODUk trail, the monitored connections range from 0 to 6. The monitored multi-
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level connections can be overlay, nesting, or cascading. At present, the overlay mode is
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applicable to the test only. Each TC-CMEP inserts or extracts the TCM overhead from six
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TCMi overhead domains. The corresponding network operator, network management
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system or switching control platform provides the TCMi overhead domain contents.
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As shown in the figure, the monitored connects A1-A2, B1-B2, and C1-C2 are nested, A1-
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A2 and B3-B4 are nested, B1-B2 and B3-B4 are cascaded.
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OTN Principle P-42
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As shown in the figure, the monitored connects B1-B2 and C1-C2 are overlaid, A1-A2 and
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B1-B2 are nested, A1-A2 and C1-C2 are nested.
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OTN Principle P-43
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GCC1 and GCC2 can be used to access to the ODUk frame structure (that is, located in 3R
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regeneration points) between any two NEs. The length is 2 bytes, respectively located in
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Column 1-2 and Column 3-4 of Line 1. It is the transparent channel. Its function is similar
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to OTUk overhead GCC0. The ESC function can be applied to the product.
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OTN Principle P-44
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TCM Activation/Deactivation (TCMACT) overhead is 1-byte long, and is located in Column
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4 of Line 2. Its definition is not determined yet.

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Automatic Protection Switching (APS)/Protection Communication Control (PCC) overhead is
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applicable to the protection protocol communication, with the length of four bytes. This
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field can appear in up to 8-level nested APS/PCC signals. It can be used by multiple
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protection mechanisms. In the multi-frame, the first eight basic frames (for MFAS, it is 0-7)
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APS/PCC are sequentially allocated to ODUk channel layer, ODUk TCM1-TCM6 sub layers,
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and OTUk section layer.
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The ODUk overhead defines 2-byte EXP, which allows the equipment supplier or network
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operator to use the extra ODUk overhead on the subnet. The specific function of the EXP is
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The ODUk overhead is allocated with one byte to transmit total 256-byte Fault Type &
Fault Location (FTFL). The FTFL message is composed of forward area and backward area,
M with 128 bytes in each area, respectively containing the forward and backward fault type,
operator identifier, and operator designated domain.

OTN Principle P-45
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The OPUk overhead defines 1-byte payload structure identifier (PSI) overhead to transmit
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the 256-byte PSI to indicate the OPUk signal type. The PSI overhead is in Column 15 of
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Line 4. The 256-byte PSI signal aligns with the ODUk multi-frame. PSI[0] is a 1-byte
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payload type (PT); PSI[1]-PSI[255] are used for the mapping and cascading; PSI[1] is
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reserved, and PSI[2]-PSI[17] is the multiplex structure identifier (MSI). The MSI includes the
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ODU type and transmitted ODU tributary port number information. For OPU2, there are
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only four ODU1 tributary port number. Therefore, only four bytes PSI[2]-PSI[5] are needed,
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OTN Principle P-46
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The OOS is the non-associated overhead, which is transmitted through the OSC. The
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optical layer overhead function should comply with the standard. The recommendation
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defines overheads and corresponding functions contained in the optical layer, and does
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not define the frame rate or frame structure. The optical layer overhead include OTS, OMS,
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OCh overheads, and generic management information overhead defined by the supplier,
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optical transmission section, and is terminated at the OTM signal assembly and dissemble
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places, including:
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a TTI: Transmit the TTI consisting of 64-byte character string. The TTI includes the
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designated by the operator.
BDI-P: Transmit the OTSn payload signal invalidity status detected from the OTSn
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terminal sink function to the upstream.

BDI-O: Transmit the OTSn overhead signal invalidity status detected from the OTSn
terminal sink function to the upstream.
PMI: It is used to transmit the status of payload that is not added at the upstream
of the OTS signal source terminal to the downstream, to suppress subsequent
reporting of loss of signal.
To be continued in the next page

OTN Principle P-48
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List the maintenance signals type;

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OTN Principle P-49
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OTS, OMS, OCh are all optical layer trails and OTUk, ODUk, Client are all electrical layer
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trails.

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OSC trail is independent, which is related to supervisory signal.

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OTUK use SM section to send maintenance signals.
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OTN Principle P-50
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OCh client trail sets the source/sink port at the client side of OTU. LQG, as an example, it
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is GE service trail of the client port.

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OCh trail sets the source/sink port at the WDM side of OTU. LQG, as an example, it is the
wavelength trail.
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OMS trail sets the source/sink port at the OUT/IN port of MUX/DeMUX. It is a trail of the
multiplex signal.
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OSC trail is independent, which is related to supervisory signals.
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OTN Principle P-51
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The FDI is the signal sent to the downstream in OMS and OCh layers, to indicate the
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detected upstream defects. FDI-P indicates the payload forward defect, and FDI-O
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OMS-FDI-P indicates the OMS servcie layer dfect of the OTS network layer.

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OMS-FDI-O indicates that the transmission of the OMS overhead transmitted through the
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OOS is interrupted owing to the signal invalidity status of the OOS.
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OCh-FDI-P indicates the OCh service layer defect in the OMS network layer. When the
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OCh-FDI-O indicates that the transmission of the OCh overhead transmitted through the
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OOS is interrupted owing to the signal invalidity status of the OOS.
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The FDI signal is generated in the adaptation sink function. In the trail terminal sink
or function, it is generated to suppress the downstream defects and invalidities detected
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owing to the transmission interruption of the upstream signals.
The FDI is similar to AIS. When the signal is in the optical domain, use the FDI. When the
signal is in the digital domain, use the AIS. The FDI served as the non-associated overhead
is transmitted in the OTM overhead signal (OOS)

OTN Principle P-52
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AIS is the electrical layer OTUk, ODUkP, ODUkT, and customer layer CBR sent to
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downstream to indicate the detected upstream defect, to suppress the downstream
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defects and invalidities detected due to the interruption of upstream signal transmission.
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required to be detected, instead of the generation of this signal. According to this
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recommendation, Huawei equipment only supports the detection of the OTUk-AIS,
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instead of inserting OTUk_AIS. CBR AIS is generated in the the ODUk/CBRx
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OTN Principle P-53
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The AIS of ODUkP and ODUkT level uses the all-1 pattern, as shown in the figure.
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When we introduce the PM and TCMi overhead, we have learnt that the value 111 of
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STAT field of PM or TCMi indicates the detected ODUk_AIS signals. When ODUkP or
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ODUkT detects the AIS, it only concerns about the value of the STAT of the corresponding
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level. For example, to detect the AIS of the TCM1, check whether the STAT corresponding
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bit of the TCM1 is 111; To check the AIS of the PM, check whether the STAT
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corresponding bit of the PM is 111.
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To insert the AIS, the ODUkP or ODUkT is not distinguished. For either of them, insert to
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PM or 6-level PCM overhead area or all payloads (excluding FTFL byte). Therefore, it is
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called the insertion of ODUk-AIS signals. The ODUk_AIS may be generated in the
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adaptation sink function from OTU to ODU or in the ODUkT termination sink function. For
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the adaptation sink function from OTU to ODT, insert the ODUk_AIS owing to the
invalidity of the service layer. For the ODUkT termination sink function, when the TCM is in
M the operation mode, insert ODUk_AIS owing to the detection of the LCK, OCI, and TIM.
Whether the TIM is inserted with the AIS can be set.
When the AIS is cleared, 111 of the STAT of the local area is cleared also. For example, for
the TCM1 source function, change the STAT of the TCM1 from 111 to 001.

OTN Principle P-54
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The Backward Defect Indication (BDI) includes the OTS of the optical layer, the BDI of the
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OMS layer, OTUk and ODUkP of the electrical layer, and the BDI of the ODUkT layer.

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The BDI-P indicates the payload backward defect. The BDI-O indicates the overhead
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backward defect. If the remote defect of the BDI inserting the OOS detected consecutively
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in X ms, the BDI is generated. If the BDI-P upstream defect inserted by OOS detected
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within the consecutive Y ms is cleared, clear the BDI-P. The values of X and Y needs the
further study.
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For the electrical layer OTUk, ODUkP and ODUkT layers BDI, we have learnt the electrical
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layer overhead part. If the BDI bit of the SM/PM/TCMi overhead domain of the consecutive
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five frames (bit 5 of byte 3) is 1, generate the dBDI. If the BDI bit of the SM/PM/TCMi
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overhead domain of the consecutive five frames (bit 5 of byte 3) is 0, clear the dBDI.
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OTN Principle P-55
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The Open connection indication (OCI) is used for the optical layer OCh, electrical layer
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ODUkP, and ODUkT to indicate that the upstream signal does not connect to the trail
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terminal source signals. The OCI signal is generated in the connection function. Through
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the connection function, output at any output connection point that is not connected to
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any input connection point. The OCI signals are detected in the trail terminal sink function.
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the OCI. If the input and output connection is normal or the overhead signal is invalid in
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the consecutive Y ms, clear OCI. The values of X and Y are still under the research.
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As shown in the figure, it is the OCI pattern of the ODUkP and ODUkT layer. Detect the
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OCI, which is similar to the detection of the AIS. Check whether the corresponding bit of
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corresponding bit of the TCM1 is 110. Detect the OCI of the PM, to check whether the
STAT corresponding bit of the PM is 110.
M Insert the OCI, and insert to PM and 6-level TCM area and all payloads. Clear the OCI to
clear 110 of this area STAT. For example, for TCM1, it means to change the STAT of the
TCM1 from 110 to 001. If the data signal is invalid, the OCI should be cleared.

OTN Principle P-56
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To support the operator's requirement of locking the user access point signal, ODUkP and
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PDUkT layer provide the LCK maintenance signals to indicate the upstream connection is
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the locked signal, without signals passing.
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When the operator performs sets up the test, the customer signals are replaced by the
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locked (LCK) fixed digital signals. It is generated through the service layer adaptation sink
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and source function, and is sent to the downstream. The downstream termination sink
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function allows the report of the LCK alarm, indicating that the upstream connection is
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locked and no signals pass.
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As shown in the figure, it is the LCK pattern of the ODUkP and ODUkT layer. Detect the
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LCK, and check whether the corresponding bit of the STAT is 101. For example, check the
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the LCK of the PM, to check whether the STAT corresponding bit of the PM is 101.
Insert the LCK, and insert to PM and 6-level TCM area and all payloads. Clear the LCK to
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clear 101 of this area STAT. For example, for TCM1 source function, change the STAT of
the TCM1 from 101 to 001.
The priority of inserting the LCK is higher than that of the AIS. That is, if a user sets the
insertion of the LCK and meets the condition of automatic insertion of the ASI, the result is
insertion of the LCK.

OTN Principle P-57
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Incoming Alignment Error (IAE) and Backward Incoming Alignment Error (BIAE). The
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electrical layer OTUk and ODUkT provide the maintenance signals of IAE and BIAE. IAE and
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BIAE are not the fault reasons. The IAE is used to suppress the near end performance of
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the OTUk and ODUkT (EBC and DS). The BIAE is used to suppress the remote performance
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For the IAE of the OTUk, if the IAE bit in the consecutive 5-frame SM overhead domain (bit
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6 of byte 3) is 1, generate the dIAE. If the IAE bit in the consecutive 5-frame SM overhead
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domain (bit 6 of byte 3) is 0, clear the dIAE. For the IAE of the ODUkT, if the received STAT
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information is 010, generate the dIAE. If the received STAT information is not 010, clear
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For the signals sent to the upstream by the BIAE, if the BEI/BIAE bit of the consecutive 3-
frame SM/TCMi overhead domain (bit1-bit4 of byte 3) is 1011, generate dBIAE. If the
M BEI/BIAE bit of the consecutive 3-frame SM/TCMi overhead domain (bit1-bit4 of byte 3) is
1011, clear dBIAE.

OTN Principle P-58
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For the framing and monitoring, the OTUk and ODUkP support to obtaining the LOF and
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LOM through the detection of the FAS and MFAS. The ODUkP is applicable to the scenario
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For the continuity monitoring, three layers support the TTI signals of the corresponding
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ODUkP and ODUkT layers support OCI and LCK signals.

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The ODUkT layer supports the LTC signals. Note: LTC indicates there is no TCM source.

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OTUk and ODUkT support the IAE/BIAE signals.
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based on the BIP-8 calculation. That is, check the OPUk frames. But the check location and
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OTN Principle P-59
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Classify the alarms into the corresponding layer;

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as a part of the unavailable second. The new available time period starts from 10 consecutive non-
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unavailable second.
IAES: Incoming Alignment Error Second: When the IAE error exists in one second, the second is the
incoming alignment error second. BIAES: backward Incoming Alignment Error Second.
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A network is a complex system interconnected formed by interconnected people or things.
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influence to the organization of the computer system and makes possible the
communication among computers. Computers of different types use the same protocol to
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The Internet is a large network formed by networks and devices. Based on the covered
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Generation Internet (CNGI) are all WANs. A WAN connects LANs that are far from
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LAN is a network that connect all kinds of communication devices together, within a room,
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CableEnlarging the transmission distance, e.g. fiber, twisted pair, coax and so on

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NICNetwork Interface Card: Seated in the main board of the computerconverting the
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detect (CSMA/CD) is an effective method for
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As limited by the CSMA/CD algorithm, an Ethernet frame cannot be shorter than 64 bytes,
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Unicast address: Only the specified host will process the frame e.g. a frame sent
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FCS: Frame check sequence 4bytes
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From 10M Ethernet, the rate of Ethernet increases of 10 times.
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Ethernet networks providing 10 Mbps of bandwidth seemed very fast when it was first
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UTP. This is the dominant form of Fast Ethernet and has become the standard Ethernet
installation.
In the 100Base FX option, the F relates to operation over fiber optic cabling. Greater
distances can be achieved with fiber. 100BASE-FX used in half duplex mode on a point to
point link can achieve a distance of 412 meters, but this is limited due to the collision
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The IEEE Gigabit Ethernet task force is responsible for standards development for this
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Gigabit Ethernet is ideal for LAN backbone solutions. It scales well from existing Ethernet
as the speed is the major technological change and the technology is obviously already
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10GBASE-ER (extended range) supports distances up to 40 km over single-mode
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single-mode fiber.
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conventional unshielded or shielded twisted pair cables. 10GBASE-T works over
shorter distances with Category 6 cabling (up to about 56 meters), with the
possibility of up to 100 meters for new cable installations designed for 10GBase-T.
The 802.3an standard defines the wire-level modulation for 10GBASE-T as a
Tomlinson-Harashima Precoded (THP) version of pulse-amplitude modulation with
16 discrete levels (PAM-16), encoded in a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern
known as DSQ128. The mathematics for this are 3.125bits encoded per symbol x
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10GE Ethernet service, data rate is 10.31Gbit/s.

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introduced into the fast Ethernet part of the standard but is also backwards compatible to
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determine the speed of the other device. This procedure cannot determine the presence of
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Concatenation, which is one of the important SDH transmission features, specifies how to
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Contiguous concatenation concatenates the contiguous C-4s in the same STM-N into an
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Virtual concatenation concatenates VC-n containers in different STM-Ns, which can be
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The concatenation indicator in the AU-4 pointer specifies that multiple C-4 payloads
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One VC-4-Xv provides the contiguous payload area (C-4-Xc) whose payload capacity is C-4
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availability of the existing services.
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channels. Other physical channels in virtual concatenation can transfer services. Hence, this
prevents a situation where the failure of a single physical channel causes interruption of
services.
The LCAS is applied on the basis of virtual concatenation and can improve the performance
of virtual concatenation. The control packet is transported in the reserved SDH overhead
byte (H4 byte for a higher order virtual concatenation, or K4 byte for lower order virtual
concatenation). The LCAS can dynamically adjust the number of virtual containers for
mapping required services to meet the bandwidth requirements of different services. As a
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concatenation is adopted, some services are mapped into the working channel, and the
other services are mapped into the protection channel. If the protection channel fails, the
LCAS dynamically decreases the VCG members in a virtual concatenation group. As a result,
the service transmission bandwidth automatically decreases, and the services are not
interrupted. When the protection channel recovers, the service bandwidth is automatically
restored.

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Bits 1-4 in the H4 byte of each frame have different meanings in different frames.
For example, bits 1-4 in frames 0 and 1 represent the multi-frame number, and bits
1-4 in frames 8 and 9 represent the member status. For the interpretation and
function of each field (for example, CTRL), see the subsequent definition and
description of the overhead control field.

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supports frame-mapped GFP and transparent GFP. It can perform statistical
multiplexing for data signals to effectively prevent error frames caused by bit errors,
therefore facilitating interconnection and interworking between the equipment of
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Generic framing procedure (GFP), which is defined in ITU-T G.7041, can correct errors in
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Generic framing procedure (GFP), which is defined in ITU-T G.7041, can correct errors in
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the IFGs are restored. The restoration of IFGs assures that sufficient bytes
that contain 00 exist between consecutively received Ethernet MAC frames
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port and already exists on that segment. Flooding allows the bridge to learn, as well as
stay transparent to the rest of the network, because no traffic is lost while the bridge is
learning. After the bridge learns the MAC address and associate port of the devices to
which it is connected, the benefits of transparent bridging can be seen by way of filtering.
Filtering occurs when the source and destination are on the same side (same bridge port)
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The four-byte 802.1q tag head contains a 2-byte Tag Protocol Identifier field (TPID) and a
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network S2, the S-Aware port in service provider network S2 replaces the S-VLAN1
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In a traditional IP network, all packets are treated in an undifferentiated way. Every router adopts
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the first in first out (FIFO) policy to process packets, and makes its best effort to transmit packets to
the destination. In this case, the packet transmission performances such as the reliability and delay
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extremely long transmission delay is not acceptable to the user. Video conference and video on
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demand (VOD) services require ensured high bandwidth, low delay, and low delay jitter. Key tasks
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services are not sensitive to time delay. To support voice, video, and data services that have different
service requirements, a network must be able to differentiate communication types so as to provide
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the application meet the requirements of an expected service class.
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FIFO queue: All packets to be transmitted through this interface enter the tail of the FIFO
queue according to the sequence of their arrival at the interface. The interface transmits
these packets from the head of the queue. The packets are not differentiated during the
transmission, and the quality of packet transmission is not ensured.
Priority queue: After packets arrive at the interface, the packets are classified first. Then,
these packets enter the tail of their corresponding queues according to their types. In this
manner, the higher-priority packets are always transmitted first and these packets have low
delay jitter. In addition, the performance indexes of these packets, including the packet loss
ratio and delay jitter, can be ensured even in the event of network congestion.

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classification can be classified into two types, namely, complex flow classification and
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to ensure that the rate of traffic does not exceed the committed rate. If the traffic of a
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Traffic marking: Traffic marking lets another application system or device that processes a
packet know the type of the packet and perform the predefined processing for the packet.
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include FIFO, PQ, CQ, WFQ, CBWFQ, LLQ, and IP RTP.
M Traffic shaping: It can restrict the traffic and burst of a connection in a network, and
enables the packet to be transmitted at an even rate.
Packet processing:
At the ingress port, the network equipment classifies the traffic, measures rates, and
differentiates CoSs for packets. In this manner, the equipment labels the packets according
to flow classification, CAR results, and CoS rules. Then, the equipment forwards the packets
to the egress port, according to a forwarding algorithm.
At the egress port, the packets are classified again for identifying the packets that require
traffic shaping. According to the labels added at the ingress port, the packets enter the
queues of relevant priorities and wait for scheduling.

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After the network receives the resource request from the application program, it executes
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program according to the resource request and current network resource condition. Once
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controlled within the range of traffic parameter description. The network will maintain a
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and execute packet classification, traffic policing, queuing and dispatching to accomplish
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In the differentiated service (DiffServ) model, services are described by the traffic classifier.
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The DiffServ (DS) domain consists of a group of network nodes (DS nodes) that provide the
same service policy and realize the same per-hop behavior (PHB).
The DS nodes are of two types, namely, DS edge nodes and internal DS nodes. The DS
edge node classifies the traffic that enters the DS domain. The DS edge node marks
different PHB service levels according to different types of service traffic. The internal DS
node controls the flow based on the PHB service levels.

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Complex flow classification means fine packet classification by use of complex rules such as
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information (for example, source MAC address, destination MAC address, source IP
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are classified as a type of flow. The Ethernet services associated with such a flow are EVPL
(QinQ) or EVPLAN (802.1ad bridge) services whose service source is the port+S-VLAN.
Port+C-VLAN+S-VLAN flow: The packets that are from a certain port and have a specified
C-VLAN+S-VLAN are classified as a type of flow. The Ethernet services associated with such
a flow are EVPL (QinQ) or EVPLAN (802.1ad bridge) services whose service source is the
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trTCM algorithm:

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packet is marked red. When the rate of the packet is between the PIR and the CIR,
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the packet is marked green. The red packet is discarded directly. In the case of
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always transmitted first.
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CIR: Committed information rate
PIR: Peak information rate
EBS: Excess burst size
CBS: Committed burst size
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transmitted if the token bucket have sufficient tokens to transmit the packets. In this case,
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control is performed for a certain type of packets.
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tokens can be transmitted, which allows the transmission of the burst data. When no
tokens are available in the token bucket, packets cannot be transmitted until new tokens
are generated in the bucket. This ensure that the traffic of packets is not more than the
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CoS: Packets are scheduled into certain queues of different priorities and then transmitted
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based on the Pri field defined by IEEE 802.1Q. If the user uses the same VLAN to
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before the services access the network, the system is able to determine the CoS of
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IP TOS CoS: When a flow is configured with the IP TOS CoS, the packets of the
flow are scheduled to a specified egress queue according to the IPv4 IP TOS value
carried in the packets. This type of CoS is applicable to a data flow containing IP
packets only.
DSCP CoS: When a flow is configured with the DSCP CoS, the packets of the flow
are scheduled to a specified egress queue according to the IPv6 IP DSCP
(Differentiated Services Code Point) value carried in the packets. This type of CoS is
applicable to a data flow containing IP packets only.

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yellow and then placed into the egress queue so that the packet is first discarded in
M the case of a network congestion.
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The optional parameters for traffic shaping include CIR and CBS. CIR is the committed
bandwidth and CBS is the committed burst size.
Committed bandwidth: Shaping bandwidth configured for a queue
Extra bandwidth: Remaining bandwidth after all committed bandwidths that
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A network is a complex system interconnected formed by interconnected people or
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far-reaching influence to the organization of the computer system and makes possible
the communication among computers. Computers of different types use the same
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printers and disks dramatically.
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computer industry developed many wide area network protocols (including TCP/IP and
IPX/SPX). Then the Internet was expanded fast. Now TCP/IP is extensively used on the
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some functions that a hub lacks, such as data filtering, network segmentation, and
broadcast control.
Router: A router is a computer device used to connect networks. A router works at the
third layer (network layer) of the OSI model and is used to route, store, and forward
packets between networks. Generally, a router supports two or more network
protocols so that it can connect networks of different types. A router can also run
dynamic routing protocols to dynamically route packets.
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different speeds.
The following devices are used in the WAN:
Router: The process of looking for the transmission path is called routing. A router
establishes routes between WANs and LANS according to the addresses and sends
the data to the destination.
Modem: As the device used to transform signals between the end system and
communication system, a modem is the indispensable device in a WAN.
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large-scale networks, including the Internet. The ISO brings forward the OSI model
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hardware so that hardware devices of different vendors can communicate with each
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802.X protocol suite. 802.3 is the standard for the Ethernet; 802.4 is the standard for
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standard for the fiber distribution data interface.
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define the standards for network cables, for example, RS232, CAT5, HSSI, and V.24.
They also define the standard for cabling, for example, EIA/TIA 568B.
International Telecomm Union (ITU)They define the standard for the telecom
network working as the WAN, for example, X.25 and Frame Relay.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)Founded at the end of 1985, the IETF is
responsible for researching and establishing technical specifications related to the
Internet. Now IETF has become the most authoritative research institute in the global
Internet field.
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Since 1960s, computer network has undergone a dramatic development. To take the leading
position and have a larger share in the communication market, manufacturers competed in
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It simplifies network related operations.
It provides compatibility and standard interfaces for systems designed by different
institutions.
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which facilitates the standardization of networks.
It lays the complex concept of communications down into simpler and smaller
problems, which facilitates our understanding and operations.
It separates the whole network into areas, which guarantees changes in one area will
not affect other areas and networks in each area can be updated quickly and
independently.
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data sent by the application layer of one system can be understood by the
application layer of another system.
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communication between network equipment. The PDU is used for exchanging
information. The PDU is different for different layers, and with different names. For
instance, in the transport layer, the PDU with TCP layer is called segment; after the
segment is transmitted to network layer, and added with IP header, the PDU is called
packet. Then, the PDU with layer 2 header is called frame. Finally, the frame is
changed into bits, and are transmitted through network media.
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PDU, which is called segment. And then segments are delivered to the network layer. And they become
packets after the network layer puts the IP header into those PDUs. The packets are transmitted to the
data link layer, where they are added data link layer headers to become frames. Finally, those frames are
transformed into bit stream to be transmitted through network medium . This process in which data are
delivered following the protocol suite from the top to the bottom and are added with headers and tails is
called encapsulation.After encapsulation, data is sent to the receiving device after transmission. The
receiving device will decode the data to extract the original service data unit and decides how to pass the
data to an appropriate application program along the protocol stack. This reverse process is called
decapsulation. The matching layer, or peer, of different devices communicates through encapsulation
and decapsulation.
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The network layer receives data from transport layer, and adds source address and
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represents the city code of Beijing, and 82882484 represents a telephone in Beijing
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segment, while the latter host part represents the equipment in this network segment.
By this hierarchical design, for every layer 3 network equipment, instead of the IP
address of every host, only the network segment address ( which represents all the
hosts in this network segment) is needed to maintain. Thus, it decreases the route
items greatly, and increases the routing flexibility.

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IP address is a collection of 32 binary digits. Usually, it is represented by 4 bytes (each
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The network layer adds the IP header to TCP datagram which it receives from the transport layer. Usually,
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512 bytes. However, nowadays many applications allow IP datagram that are more than 8192
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datagram the host sends.
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decreases one every time the packet passes a router. When the value turns to 0, the packet will
be discarded.
Protocol: indicates the next level protocol used in the data portion of the internet datagram. It
is similar to the port number. IP protocols use protocol number to mark upper layer protocols.
The protocol number of TCP is 6 and the protocol number of UDP is 17.
Head checksum: calculates the checksum of the IP header to see if the header is complete.
The source IP address field and the destination IP address filed point out the IP addresses of the
source and the destination.

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An IP address contains a network ID, which identifies a network segment uniquely or identifies the
aggregation of multiple network segments. The devices in the same network segment use the same
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addresses. The host ID of the class A address is the last three octets, namely, the last 24 bits. The IP
addresses.
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address ranges from 128.0.0.0 to 191.255.255.255. Each class B network can have 2 16 IP addresses.
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and the third digit is 0. Therefore, the number of valid digits of class C network address is 243=21. The
M first digit of the class C address ranges from 192 to 223. For example, 192.1.1.1 and 220.2.4.78 are class
C addresses. The host ID of the class C address is the last octet. The class C address range from 192.0.0.0
to 223.255.255.255. Each class C network can have 28 =256 IP addresses.
The first three digits of the first octet of class D address is 111, and the fourth digit is 0. Therefore, the
first octet of the class D address ranges from 224 to 239. The class D address is used as the multicast
address. The first octet of class E address ranges from 240 to 255. It is reserved for research.
The IP address usually used are of class A, class B and class C. The IP addresses are allocated by the
International Network Information Center (InterNIC) according to the scale of the company. Basically, the
class A addresses are allocated to governments, the class B addresses are allocated to medium-sized
companies, and class C addresses are allocated to small-sized companies. With the fast development of
the Internet and also the waste of IP addresses, the IP address is becoming insufficient.
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the nature mask of class A network 255.0.0.0 or /8
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Using Subnet Mask, the network equipment could decide in the IP address which part
is network part and which is host part. By using subnet, the network addresses are
used more efficiently. Externally, it is still a single network; and internally, it is divided
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As shown in the slide, the IP address and subnet mask are already known. Then, the
network address is obtained from the AND operation between the IP address and the
subnet mask. The AND operation is 1&1=1, 1&0=0, and 0&0=0. Therefore, the
calculation of the AND operation of the example in this slide is as follows:
11000000, 10101000, 00000001, 00000001
&11111111, 11111111, 11111111, 00000000
11000000, 10101000, 00000001, 00000000
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The subnet mask of class A address is 255.0.0.0, namely, 24-bit host ID. The subnet
mask of class B address is 255.255.0.0, namely, 16-bit host ID. The subnet mask of
class C address is 255.255.255.0, namely, 8-bit host ID.
This example is a class C address. The standard subnet mask has an 8-bit host ID, and
in this case, the first 4 bits of it are also used as the subnet mask. Then, the maximum
number of hosts is 28-4.

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automobile and refrigerator require a global unicast address to get access to the
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easy configuration gives rise to a common ground: a new protocol to fundamentally
solve all problems IPv4 is now confronted.
The IP address depletion process has shown to us that we need and be able to design
a new protocol in place of the current IPv4, and the new protocol should provide
more than extended address space. We are now facing a good opportunity to revise
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M identify and process packets belonging to the same flow. With this flag , a router can identify a
flow without even accessing its inner packet, thus ensuring the QoS in the case of payload
encryption.
Built-in security IPv6 supports IPSec with extension headers like AH and ESP. This provides a
standard-based solution to network security, enabling compatibility among different IPv6
solutions.
Built-in mobility The Routing Header and Destination Options Header provide built-in mobility.
A complete IPv6 address is expressed by IPv6 address plus prefix length . As you know, IPv4
address is in dotted decimal format plus the mask or prefix length, such as 192.168.1.1/24. An
IPv6 address is 128-bit long, so the decimal expression does no apply any longer. RFC2373
defines a different text presentation.
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g specifies an individual host or a group. To convert: Change 0 to 1, and insert FFFE
between c and d. The result is IPv6interface ID.
This method streamlines configuration especially in the case of Stateless Address Auto
configuration (to be covered later), where what you need is merely an IPv6 prefix.
An obvious weakness of this method is the possibility for a malicious user to calculate
the L3 IPv6 address based on the L2 MAC address.
ID Change 48-bit MAC address to 64-bit interface ID
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Alternative form (RFC2373)
In some special cases, the IPv6 address must include an IPv4 address, such as address for IPv6 tunnel
compatible with IPv4.Such IPv6 address can be expressed in preferred or compression form except the IPv4
address part . The built-in IPv4 is still in dotted decimal format . The address prefix is expressed as /xx.
For example0:0:0:0:0:0:166.168.1.2/64 and ::166.168.1.2/64
In some special cases, the IPv6 address must include an IPv4 address. To highlight the IPv4 address, RFC2373 defines
an alternative form of IPv6 address . The alternative form is detailed in other IPv6 related trainings . An IPv6 address of
this form consists of hexadecimal values and a standard presentation of IPv4 address. Two types are available.Here is
an example: 0:0:0:0:0:0:192.168.1.2 or ::192.168.1.2 , 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:192.168.1.2 or ::FFFF:192.168.1.2
The alternative form plus the prefix length is a complete IPv6 address: 0:0:0:0:0:0:192.168.1.2 / 64
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connectivity. It must remember the address and port it translates. Address and
port translation all require additional processing, which decreases network
performance. In addition, an organization who need to record its end users
behaviors for security must also maintain a NAT state table.
Breaking end-to-end network security. Some encryption algorithms are used
to ensure integrity of the IP header that must remain unchanged when
traveling from source to destination. The source is responsible for header
integrity, while the destination checks the integrity. Any change to the header
on the way will cause problem to integrity check.
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existing switch equipment has to be knocked out, which results in a severe
waste of resources.
The boards that support the MPLS function are expensive. The small-sized
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TPID structure,TPID consists of two bytes to indicate the VLAN tag type. The TPID of
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classified and transmitted to different destinations. A specific two-tag combination for
each client clears the limit of identifying services based on only one VLAN ID to a great
extent and facilitates the grooming in and between the customer- and supplier-side
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The Internet based on the IP technology prevailed in the middle 1990s. The IP
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The traditional IP forwarding adopts hop-by-hop forwarding, each router that packet
passed through should implement the process (as the figure shows, RTA receives a
data packet whose destination IP address is . . . , RTA will lookup routing
table and forward according to matched route item, RTB, RTC will also do like this), So
the efficiency is low. And all the routers need to know all routes in the entire network
or default route . Besides, the traditional IP forwarding is connectionless oriented, so it
is hard to deploy Qos.Confidential Information of Huawei. No
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With the evolvement of network technologies, the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
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routing in forwarding packets, MPLS analyzes a packet header only on the network edge
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advantages in high-speed forwarding any more. MPLS supports multi-layer labels, and its
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identifier of fixed length that is meaningful for the local end. The label is similar to the
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link connection identifier (DLCI). The label is encapsulated between the data link layer and
M the network layer . MPLS is not limited by any specific protocol of the data link layer and is
enabled to use any Layer 2 media to transfer packets.
The origin of MPLS is the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). The core MPLS technology can
be extended to multiple network protocols, such as the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6),
Internet Packet Exchange (IPX), Appletalk, DECnet, and Connectionless Network Protocol
(CLNP). Multiprotocol in MPLS means that the protocol supports multiple network
protocols.
In fact, the MPLS technology is a tunneling technology rather than a service or an
application. It supports multiple protocols and services. Moreover, it can ensure the
security for data transmission.
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switch located inside of MPLS domain are called LSR, router and ATM switch located
at the edge of MPLS domain that used to connect IP network or other kinds of
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M The path that packet passes through in MPLS domain is called Label Switch Path (LSP),
this path is already confirmed and established by kinds of protocols before packet
forwarding, packet will be transmitted along the specified LSP . An LSP is a
unidirectional path in the same direction with the data flow.
Both of LER and LSR have the ability of label forwarding, but they are located in
different position, the packet processing is different. LERs charge is to receive IP
packet from IP network and insert label into the packet, then transmit it to LSR,
whereas, its charge is also to receive labeled packet from LSR and remove label,
transmit it to IP network; LSRs charge is to forward according to the label.
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label, and then continue forwarding. (this case is special, outgoing label and incoming
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label, and uses new outgoing label to swap original label, then transmits packet from
outgoing interface , the next hop is RTD.
MPLS ForwardingEgress LER (RTD)
Egress LSR RTD receives message with label 1039, Pops the label, lookups IP routing
table and forwards it.
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Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a technology combining the routing function
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applied to a variety of network layer protocols. These include Internet Protocol version
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multiple labels, namely, the label nesting. When the S field is 1, it means that
the label is at the bottom of the label stack.
TTL: indicates the time to live. The length is 8 bits. This field is the same as the
TTL in IP packets.
Labels are encapsulated between the data link layer and the network layer. Thus,
labels can be supported by all protocols of the data link layer . Figure shows the
position of the label in a packet and the encapsulation structure of the label.
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that the frame payload is a unicast MPLS packet. PID=0x0800 identifies that the frame
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A label stack is a set of arranged labels. An MPLS packet can carry multiple labels at
the same time. The label next to the Layer 2 header is called the top label or the outer
label. The label next to the Layer 3 header is called the bottom label or inner label.
Theoretically, MPLS labels can be nested limitlessly.
The label stack organizes labels according to the rule of Last-in, First-Out. The labels
are processed from the top of the stack.
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The path that an FEC passes through in the MPLS network is called the LSP . An LSP functions similarly to
virtual circuits of ATM and Frame Relay. The LSP is a unidirectional path from the ingress to the egress.
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Procedure of Establishing LSPs
Usually, MPLS allocates labels for packets and establish an LSP. Then, MPLS can forward packets.
Labels are allocated and distributed by a downstream LSR to an upstream LSR. The downstream LSR
classifies FECs according to an IP routing table and then allocates labels to specific FECs. Then, the
downstream LSR notifies the upstream LSR through label advertisement protocols to set up a label
forwarding table and an LSP.
The classification of LSPs is as follows:
Static LSP: It is set up by the administrator.
Dynamic LSP: It is set up by the routing protocol and label distribution protocol.
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The operations are described as follows:
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hop. Then, the last hop directly forwards the IP packet or the VPN packet.
PHP is configured on the egress. In addition, the egress only allocates the following
label to the PHP:
Label 3: indicates the implicit-null label. This label is not listed in the label stack.
When an LSR receives an implicit-null label, the LSR pops out the label in the
packet rather than uses this implicit-null label to replace the label at the top of
the label stack. The egress directly forwards the packet through an IP link or
according to the next layer label.
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physical layer and protocol layer, the static LSP is Up, regardless the existence of the
ingress, egress, or other transits.
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enabled with MPLS. If the incoming interface is Up on the physical layer and protocol
layer, the static LSP is Up, regardless the existence of the ingress or the transit.
A reachable route is required on the ingress only for setting up a static LSP, but not on
the transit or egress.
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The Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP (MP-BGP) is an extended protocol of BGP. MP-BGP
imports the community attribute. MP-BGP supports label distribution for routes over MPLS VPN
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different VPN. As the figure shows, CE is user edge device; PE is service provider edge
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provider network, it does not directly connect with CE. VPN data is transmitted along
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Both MPLS L2 VPN and MPLS L3 VPN Services are offered from the edge of a network.
MPLS L3 VPN passes IP traffic over IP Backbone.
MPLS L2 VPN passes Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC traffic over IP
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Functions of PW
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CE: Customer Edge . It is a device that originates or terminates a service. The CE cannot be aware
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PE: Provider Edge.It is a device that provides PWE3 to a CE. It is usually the edge router that is
connected to a CE on a backbone network. A PE is responsible for processing the VPN service. A PE
performs the mapping and forwarding of the packets from the private network to the public-
network tunnels and that in the reverse order.
U-PE: ultimate PE. It is an edge device that is directly connected to a user edge device on a
backbone network.
S-PE: switching PE. It is a device that is responsible for PW switching and PW label
forwarding within a backbone network.
CW: control word. A control word is a 4-byte encapsulated packet header. It is used to transmit
packets in an MPLS PSN.
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mechanisms of U-PEs in multi-hop PWs and in single-hop PWs are the same. The only
difference is the multi-hop PW requires to switch labels at the PW label level on the S-
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Time slot 0 used for signaling or other purpose . Time slot 1-31 can be used for
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Service over Packet Switched Network (CESoPSN) are two methods for encapsulating
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frames into one PW header.
If one E1 frame encapsulated into one PW header, more bandwidth will be used but
the encapsulation time is short.
If more E1 frames encapsulated into one PW header, can improve the bandwidth
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The MSTP equipment senses frame structures, frame alignment modes and timeslots in
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according to certain sequence. As a result, the service in each channel in the packet is
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Each Ethernet frame that carries the CES service loads TDM frames of a fixed number.
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CESoPSN provides the emulation and transport functions for channelized TDM services.
That is, it identifies the TDM frame format and signaling in the frame. Therefore,
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With the frame format of the TDM service identified, CESoPSN does not transmit idle
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flow and then encapsulates these timeslots as PW packets for transmission.

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MPLS labels include tunnel labels and PW labels, which are used to identify tunnels and PWs
respectively. The format of the tunnel label is the same as that of the PW label.
re Control Word: optional, can choose use CW or not, if not, CW header is not required.
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not required.
The CESoPSN different from SAToP is:
The CESoPSN protocol can identify frame structure of TDM service. It may not transmit
idle timeslot channels, but only extracts useful timeslots of CE devices from the E1
traffic stream and then encapsulates them into PW packets for transmission.
For example: only time slot 1-5 have data, all the other time slots are idle, CESoPSN
can choose only transmit time slot 1-5s data to another PE, the opposite PE can
reconstruct the original E1 frame, and then send it to appropriate CE.
NOTE: CESoPSN does not support the automatic detection of idle timeslots. Therefore,
idle timeslots must be manually specified.
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After CES packets are transmitted over a PSN, the intervals between packet arrivals may be
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different and the packets may be misordered. To ensure that the TDM bit streams can be
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reconstructed on the egress PE, a jitter buffer is required to smooth the intervals between
packet arrivals and to reorder the misordered packets.The data jitter buffer works as follows:

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The data jitter buffer enables the packets to enter the queue in the order that the
packets arrive at the interface. At the same time, data jitter buffer enables the packets
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When the packets are received with consecutive sequence numbers, the write pointer
writes data into the queue, beginning at the tail of the queue; the read pointer reads
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The size of the data jitter buffer can be set as required. A low-capacity jitter buffer easily
o overflows, and as a result data may be lost at different degrees; a high-capacity jitter buffer can
M absorb jitters resulting from larger packet transmission intervals on the network, but a large
delay may be generated when the TDM bit streams are reconstructed. Therefore, during service
deployment, you need to properly configure the data jitter buffer based on the actual network
delay and jitter conditions.
CES Alarm Transparent Transmission
The Hybrid MSTP equipment uses the L/M and R fields in the control word to transparently
transmit alarms.CES alarm transparent transmission involves transmitting local CES alarms to
the remote end, and inserting corresponding alarms to notify the remote end of faults in the
local end. Depending on the position where the alarm is generated, CES alarm transparent
transmission can be between AC sides, and from the NNI side to the AC side.
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When clocks need to be transmitted with CES services, you can adopt CES retiming or CES adaptive clock
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transmission network. It combines the timing reference signal and CES service signal for transmission.
Therefore, the transmitted CES service signal carries the timing information that is synchronized with the
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timing reference signal. CES retiming is applicable when the following conditions are met:

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CES ACR CES ACR is a technology wherein the CES service is used to restore the clock of the source end
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QoS of TDM PWE3
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The QoS of TDM services features low delay, low jitter, and fixed bandwidth. Therefore, a high enough
per-hop behavior (PHB) level needs to be assigned to CES packets.
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The Hybrid MSTP equipment performs QoS for TDM PWE3 packets as follows.
Ingress node
The PHB service class of a TDM PWE3 packet can be manually specified (the PHB service class is set to EF,
by default). When a packet leaves an ingress node, the EXP value of the packet is determined according
to the mapping (between PHB service classes and EXP values) defined by the DiffServ domain of the
egress port.
Transit node
When a packet enters a transit node, the PHB service class of the packet is determined according to the
mapping (between EXP values and PHB service classes) defined by the DiffServ domain of the ingress port.
When a packet leaves a transit node, the EXP value of the packet is determined according to the
mapping (between PHB service classes and EXP values) defined by the DiffServ domain of the egress port.
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The ATM PWE3 technology emulates the basic behaviors and characteristics of ATM
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ATM transparent cell transport bears the following services though the PSN:

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ATM CEs regard ATM transparent cell transport as a TDM leased line to interconnect
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Virtual circuit connection. It is a basic unit in an ATM network.
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multiple service connections of the same destination, the VPC cell is a better
solution compared with the VCC cell. VPC cell transport is swifter than VCC cell
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The CW, which is optional, is inserted before the ATM payload. If the MPLS PSN
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M Sequence Number: It is of 16 bits. It is used to guarantee the packet order.

This field is optional. If the Sequence Number is 0, it means the packet order
check is disabled.
An ATM Service Payload is of 52 bytes: 4-byte ATM Header and 48-byte ATM Cell
Payload. A common ATM Cell is of 53 bytes. Compared with the common ATM cell,
the ATM Service Payload discards a 1-byte Header Error Check (HEC) contained in the
common ATM header, that is, 53 -1 = 52 bytes.

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The CW, which is optional, is inserted before the Pseudo wire Header. The ATM
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Resvd: It refers to the reserved field, which is of two bits. This field is set to 0
when it is transmitted and is ignored when it is received.
The number of ATM cells to be encapsulated is negotiated between the ingress device
and the egress device. Each encapsulated ATM cell has the 1-byte ATM Specific
Header. Therefore, the ATM cell information of 53 bytes can be regarded as being
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The CW, which is mandatory, is inserted before the Pseudowire Header. The ATM
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an ATM cell or a frame payload. The value of 0 indicates that the packet
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contains the VCI field or not. The value of 0 indicates that the packet does not
contain the VCI; the value of 1 indicates that the packet contains the VCI. The
M VPC is an ATM connection that is switched by the VPI value in the ATM cell
header. Therefore, the VCI is needed for a VPC, and is transmitted in each cell.
VCI: It is of 16 bits. This filed indicates that VCI value after the ATM cell is
encapsulated.
The number of ATM cells to be encapsulated is negotiated between the ingress device
and the egress device. Each encapsulated ATM cell has the 1-byte ATM Specific
Header. Therefore, the ATM cell information of 53 bytes can be regarded as being
encapsulated in 51 bytes.
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The number of ATM cells encapsulated in PWE3 packets is determined by the parameters Maximum
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The number of ATM cells in a ATM service is determined by the parameters Maximum Number of
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Concatenated Cells and ATM Cell Concatenation Waiting Time.
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When Maximum Number of Concatenated Cells is set to 1, each PWE3 packet contains only
one ATM cell. Specifically, an ATM cell is directly encapsulated into a PWE3 packet after the PE
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receives an ATM cell from the AC.
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When Maximum Number of Concatenated Cells is set to a value greater than 1, the PE uses
the timer ATM Cell Concatenation Waiting Time. If the PE receives the maximum number of
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ATM cells from the AC before the timer expires, the PE encapsulates all the received ATM cells
into a PWE3 packet and resets the timer. If the timer expires, the PE encapsulates all the
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received ATM cells into a PWE3 packet and resets the timer, even if the maximum number of
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QoS of ATM PWE3
The QoS requirements depend on the category of the ATM service. As such, set the PHB service level of
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an ATM PWE3 packet based on the category of the emulated ATM service to ensure specific QoS
objectives.

Specify an appropriate PHB service level for an ATM service based on its category. The following table
provides the default mapping relationships between ATM service categories and PHB service levels.
The OptiX OSN equipments perform QoS for ATM PWE3 packets as follows.
Ingress node The PHB service class of an ATM PWE3 packet can be manually specified. When a packet
leaves an ingress node, the EXP value of the packet is determined according to the mapping (between
PHB service classes and EXP values) defined by the DiffServ domain of the egress port.
Transit node When a packet enters a transit node, the PHB service class of the packet is determined
according to the mapping (between EXP values and PHB service classes) defined by the DiffServ domain
of the ingress port. When a packet leaves a transit node, the EXP value of the packet is determined
according to the mapping (between PHB service classes and EXP values) defined by the DiffServ domain
of the egress port.
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The MSTP products supports various Ethernet services and provides ideal L2VPN
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A virtual private network (VPN) is a private network constructed on the basis of the
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VPN constructed on the public network can provide the same security, reliability and
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network security and encryption technology develops, the private data can be
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For the MSTP products, the Ethernet service has the following forms.
Point-to-point service: E-Line service
Multipoint-to-multipoint service: E-LAN service
Multipoint-to-point converging service: E-Aggr service

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Company A and Company B have departments in City 1 and City 2, which need to
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between each other. The user side networks can communicate with each other
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On each PE node, the accessed data is forwarded through the target MAC address or
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target MAC address + VLAN. At the network side, the data is transparently transmitted
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Node B connected to NE1 and Node B connected to NE2 need communicate with the
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the services to NE3, which then aggregates the services to the RNC. All services of
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Node B is connected to the equipment through the FE interface. RNC is connected to
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PW. In addition, multiple VPs of different service boards cannot be mapped to a PW.

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r e ATM cells are transparently transmitted across the entire PSN and each
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M Local N-to-1 VPC ATM cell transport.

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L e Local 1-to-1 VCC ATM cell transport.
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PWE3 is a technology that bears Layer 2 services. PWE3 emulates the basic behaviors
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List the difference between SAToP and CESoPSN.

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The equipment regards TDM signals as constant rate bit flows, instead
of sensing structures in the TDM signals. The entire bandwidth of TDM
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transmitted.
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The MSTP equipment processes the overhead and extracts the payload
in TDM frames. Then, the MSTP equipment delivers the timeslot of
each channel to the packet payload according to certain sequence. As
a result, the service in each channel in the packet is fixed and visible.
Typical applications of PWE3 have the following typesEthernet Service to
PWE3,TDM E1 Service to PWE3 and ATM Service to PWE3.
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LDP Label Distribution Protocol
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HSI High Speed Internet
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BTSBase Transceiver Station
BSCBase Station Controller
RNC Radio Network Controller
CIDRClassless Inter-Domain Routing
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1. Product Introduction ....................................................................................Page 3
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2. Cabinet, Sub-rack .........................................................................................Page 6
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OptiX OSN 3500 Hardware Description manual

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OptiX OSN 3500 Product Description manual
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OptiX OSN 1500/2500 mainly used in Optical convergence or access switching system.
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OptiX OSN 3500 mainly used in Optical convergence and core switching system.

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OptiX OSN 7500 mainly used in Optical core switching system.
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Tributary unit (TU): access low rate signal (PDH, Ethernet, ATM, and so on) &
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L e SCC Unit: collect alarm and performance events & communicate with another
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The OptiX OSN series sub-rack can be installed in a 300-mm or 600-mm deep ETSI cabinet.
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The external case-shaped devices can be installed in the cabinet as required.
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The PDU, TN81PDU, is installed at the top of the cabinet, and is divided into two parts,
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The TN81PDU provides eight power output interfaces, supplying power to the subracks
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part A and part B can respectively be connected to four -48 V DC power cables and
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Power switch area: On both sides of the DC PDU, there are respectively four power output
switches that correspond to the output terminal blocks. The power output switches
control power supply to the corresponding subracks.

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On the top of the ETSI cabinet, there are cabinet indicators and a DC power distribution
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unit (PDU). The OptiX OSN series supports the input of 48 V or 60 V DC power supply.

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The sub-rack of the OptiX OSN 3500 adopts a two-tier structure. The structure is divided
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Interface board area: for various OptiX OSN 3500 interface boards.

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The sub-rack of the OptiX OSN 3500 has two tiers. The upper tier gives 16 slots for
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GSCC boards: slots 1718 (Slot 17 can also hold a service processing board)
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The OptiX OSN 3500 offers a 200 Gbit/s, 80 Gbit/s or 40 Gbit/s cross-connect capacity
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622M x 8+2.5G x 4+10G x 2=35G
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CAUTIONS:
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DANGER
Avoid direct eye exposure to laser beams launched from the optical interface board
or optical interfaces. Otherwise, damage may be caused to the eyes.

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LC: Lucent connector.
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F: support FEC (Forward Error Correction) function
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SFP: Small Form-Factor Pluggable
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SLH1 is a 16 x STM-1 electrical signal processing board.
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SEP1 is a 2 x STM-1 electrical signal processing board, with two STM-1 electrical interfaces
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The optical interface of the N1OU08 uses the LC connector. The optical interface of the
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The O/E conversion module includes E/O (O/E) conversion and MUX/DEMUX part. The O/E
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conversion converts the received 2.666 Gbit/s FEC optical signals into electrical signals and
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encapsulation and FEC processing module.
The digital packet encapsulation and FEC processing module performs FEC coding and SDH
overhead inserting to the multiple signals, and then sends it to the O/E conversion module.
The O/E conversion module multiplexes the received parallel electrical signals into high rate
electrical signals through the MUX part, converts the signals into SDH optical signals.
Signals are then sent to fibres for transmission.

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Different boards have different appearance and dimensions.
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The barcode on the front panel of the board indicates the board version, name and board
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PDH service processing boards include the boards which can process E1/T1, E3/DS3,
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STAT: Board hardware status indicator

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There are two types of PQ1: PQ1A (75) and PQ1B (100/120).
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TPS: Tributary Protection Switching. It is intended to protect several (N) tributary
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used to analyze if a service path is faulty. Such analysis can be performed for the NE and
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If there is no interface port on the board, then the board must work with an interface
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Function of EFS4
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Transmitting Direction
De-map the VC-3 or VC-4 signals from the cross-connect unit and send them to the
encapsulation module for decapsulation. The service processing module determines
the route according to the level of the equipment; it also provides frame
delimitation, adding preamble field code, CRC calculation and performance
statistics. Finally, the interface module performs parallel or serial conversion and
encoding to the signals and then sends them out from the Ethernet interface.

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LCAS: Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme.
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Testing frame only for GFP protocol.
EPL: Ethernet Private Line.
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EPLAN: Ethernet Private Local Area Network.
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XCE can be used in extended sub-rack only.
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Note: When OptiX OSN 3500 is configured as an extended sub-rack, the EXT port of AUX
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Standard SSM mode: A mechanism for synchronization management in SDH network, is
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Control Module
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The control module configures and manages boards and NEs, collect alarms and
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Overhead Processing Module

a rThe overhead processing module receives overhead signals from the line slot and
L e processes such bytes as E1, E2, F1 and serials 1-4. The overhead processing module
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or orderwire interface, two SDH NNI audio interfaces, interface F1, and the broadcast
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Power Monitoring Module
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The power monitoring module comprises 48 V power monitoring and working
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If there are two subnets which are not connected by fibers, ethernet cables can be applied
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The mdb is in the dynamic random-access memory (RAM), saving the current databases.
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The AUX, EOW, SAP and SEI are the system auxiliary interface board, providing the system
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The uninterruptible power module (UPM), numbered GIE4805S, is a special power supply
system. It can convert 110 V/220 V AC power supply directly to 48 V DC needed by
transmission equipment, such as OptiX OSN 2500. It is suitable for telecom carriers who
do not have 48 V DC power supply equipment or who require storage batteries.
The OptiX OSN equipment uses the modularized fan. The FAN is a fan control board,
responsible for fan speed adjustment, fan failure detection and failure report, as well as
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The AUX consists of communication module, interface module and power module.
Communication Module
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Power Module
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Through this course, trainees should be able to:
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ITU-T Recommendation G.841 (Oct, 1998) Types and characteristics of SDH
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or ITU-T Recommendation G.803 (Aug, 2003) Architecture of transport networks
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The network topology, the geometrical layout of SDH network nodes and transmission
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The chain network is simple and economical at the initial application stage of SDH
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In the star network, the hub node selects routes and passes through the traffic signals for
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A tree structure can be considered as the combination of chain and star structures. It is
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The ring network is the most widely used network for SDH transmission networks.
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Mesh networks are such communications networks in which many nodes are
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Modern society is getting more and more dependent on communications with the
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In OSN networking application, there is no PP ring. But when we need to create a
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On each fiber, half the channels are defined as working channels and half are defined as
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For two-fiber bidirectional multiplex section protection rings, as their traffic have uniform
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When a node determines that a switch is required, it sources the appropriate bridge
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The APS controller is responsible for generating and terminating the APS information
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Four-fiber MS shared protection rings require four fibers for each span of the ring.
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In the normal situation, the services will be transmitted on the working fibers
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This is the position figure of the U2000 in telecommunication management network
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The client of U2000 implement the workstation function (WSF) of TMN, by which the user
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Excellent system structure;
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Security LH WDM
Eudemon300, Eudemon500, OptiX BWS OAS, OptiX BWS OCS, OptiX
Eudemon1000/E, Eudemon8040, BWS OIS, OptiX BWS 320GV3, OptiX BWS
Eudemon8080/E, 1600G, OptiX BWS 1600G OLA, OptiX
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Small-scale management scenario: 2,000 U2000 equivalent NEs
Medium-scale management scenario: 6,000 U2000 equivalent NEs
Large-scale management scenario: 15,000 U2000 equivalent NEs
Super large-scale management scenario: 20,000 U2000 equivalent NEs.

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fill in the application form, use the template that matches the intended version of
the U2000.
The license folder contains only one license file in the U2000\server\etc\conf\license
directory of the U2000 V100R002.
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client
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U2000server Tools
D:\U2000\server\bin\startnms.bat
D:\U2000\server\bin\stopnms.bat
U2000sysmonitor D:\U2000\client\startup_sysmonitor_global.bat
U2000client D:\U2000\client\startup_all_global.bat
Msuiteclient C:\HWENGR\engineering\startclient.bat
Msuiteserver C:\HWENGR\engineering\startserver.bat
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Zoom in or out on topological views.
Set a background map. You can know the position of an equipment node through its icon
in the background map.
Find topology objects globally. You can identify an object.
Provide a navigation tree through which you can quickly switch between views.
Provide the aerial view, print function, and filter function.
Support the custom view. You can define and organize different views according to the
actual requirements.

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The NE Panel displays the slots, boards, and ports of the subrack in different colors. You
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can check the legend (click the corresponding shortcut icon at the top of the NE Panel)
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There is an blank area at the bottom of NE Panel, when you left click on a board,
the corresponding information of the board is displayed.
Right click on the board and you can get the entrances of many frequently used
operations.

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NE Explorer is the main operation interface of the U2000. For easy navigation, the NE
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For this course, we take a window of SDH service configuration as an example, which is
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applied to the following scenarios:

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Create SDH service in Single Station method.

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Query and maintain the cross-connection of a single station.
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In the Overhead Management, you can query and configure the overhead bytes including
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J0, J1, J2, C2 and Overhead Termination.

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You can configure the parameters of each boards including interface boards. U2000
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provides the parameters configuration such as loopback, service load, laser switch etc,
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This operation is mainly applied to NE communication. The function sub-tree includes:
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which is helpful to allocate and solve the problem.
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You should create the protection subnet according to actual network protection demand
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before the service configuration.

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Protection subnet management supports protection subnet search, browse, creation and
maintenance.
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In this user interface, you can maintain and manage protection subnets such as starting or
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stopping the MSP protocol, protection switching, or checking the protection status. There
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Tips: Before MSP testing, you can perform exercise switching to check if the APS protocol
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In the Clock View, you can create a virtual clock device, create a virtual clock link, search
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SDH, PON, Synchronous ETH.

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In the user interface of DCN Management, you can assign the gateway NE for NEs, which
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ensures the DCN connectivity.
DCN protection includes:
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Automatic switch of Gateway NE. You can assign one primary and three standby
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Configure GNE type and IP address.
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NSAP (Network Service Access Point) address is used for OSI protocol while the TSAP
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An NE and GNE can be converted each other.
Cautions: The recommended number of non-gateway NEs (including non-gateway NEs
that connects to the GNE by using the extended ECC) that connect to each GNE is fewer
than 50. Do not connect more than 60 non-gateway NEs to a GNE.

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U2000 supports powerful E2E functions for transmission network:
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The U2000 provides a powerful and flexible trail creation function for SDH, Ethernet, ATM,
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WDM, etc. In this SDH trail creation interface, for example, you can allocate timeslot,
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connection of cables, the corresponding LOS alarm is generated. If the Alarm Reversion is
checked, the alarm will not be displayed. This does not affect the network monitoring
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The Trail Management interface comprises four parts: part A is the table of trails, part B is
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the function buttons area, part C is the detailed trail route area, and Part D is the graphic
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Entrance: Choose Service > Tunnel > Create Tunnel from the main menu.
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OptiX equipment supports the MPLS tunnel, which is a tunneling technology using the
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Entrance: Choose Service > Tunnel > Manage Tunnel from the main menu.
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You can view the VPN service carried on a Tunnel.

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Entrance: Choose Service > PWE3 Service > Create PWE3 Service from the main menu.
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source and sink nodes of a CES service and the PW attributes on the GUI of the U2000. In
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Entrance: Choose Service > PWE3 Service > Manage PWE3 Service from the main menu.
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U2000V1R5 supports quick PID service configuration.
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In alarm management, you can monitor network exceptions in real time. It provides
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various management methods such as alarm statistics, alarm identification, alarm
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Alarms browse is the important operation for routine maintenance.
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In the interface of Fault>Settings> NE Alarm/Event Config, you can set alarm severity,
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automatic reporting, and alarm suppression status and apply an alarm attribute template
to NEs, subnet and boards.
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Alarm management mainly includes the following operations:
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Customizing Alarm Template
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The U2000 supports the powerful performance management function which helps us for
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the routine maintenance, most of the operation for alarms are implemented by this
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crossings record in the browse window, you can also select the options in the frame of
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The U2000 can monitor the key indexes of a network in real time, and provide statistics on
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the collected performance data. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate
network performance management.
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Management on physical inventories, fibers and cables, fiber and cable pipes, link
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resources, and interface resources.
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The U2000 provides the inventory management function that allows you to query and
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For convenient information browse and management, U2000 supports the following main
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Microwave Link Report
Microwave License Capacity Report

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WDM Protection Group Switching Status Report
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The security management function includes authentication, authorization, and access
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control, to ensure that users can perform operations according to their respective
authorities. The U2000 adopts an authority-based and domain-based security
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management policy, and a security mechanism including access control and encrypted text
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transmission. This ensures the security of the U2000 system and the transport network
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User Management
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Database management includes the management of NE and U2000 databases. To ensure
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The U2000 provides SNMP, CORBA, FTP performance NBI and XML NBIs. The U2000 can
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be interconnected with different third-party NMSs flexibly through NBIs, to provide the
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If the U2000 needs to be accessed to the upper-level network management system, the
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corresponding northbound interface such as CORBA, XML, and SNMP northbound
interfaces should be configured.
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ITU-T Recommendation G.8011/Y.1307
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The basic concepts about Ethernet over SDH (EOS) will be mentioned in chapter 1
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For OptiX Ethernet unit, we mainly focus on L2. VLAN (Virtual local area network) is used
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Port is the external physical port of Ethernet unit. For example, in the front panel of EFS4
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VCTRUNK. VCAT is much more flexible than contiguous concatenation (CCAT), all
of the members status can be monitored by Ethernet unit. If some of the members
are failed, the LCAS (link Capacity Adjustment Scheme) function executes the
bandwidth adjustment immediately without service interruption, however CCAT
can not provide this function, all of the bandwidth will be unavailable when
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EVPLAN: Ethernet Virtual Private Line
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Services A & B access with different external ports then cross-connect to the same
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PE: the edge of MPLS network, it is used to access the signal without MPLS;
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The operation of PE and P ports:
PE->P (Ingress): Add MPLS label;

P->PE (Egress): Discard MPLS label;
P->P (Transit): Exchange MPLS label.

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When we configure the EVPL (MPLS) service, the default MPLS encapsulation is MartinoE.
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QinQ technology is a VLAN stacking technology, which conforms to the recommendation
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Advantages of QinQ technology:

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DA SA TYPE(8100) S-VLAN TYPE(8100) C-VLAN Ethernet
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Server layer VLAN label, defined as S-VLAN.

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EPLAN service can provide multi-point to multi-point transmission without sharing.
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EPLAN is based on L2 switching, so in NE2, 3, 4 we should manually configure the VB
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or with NE1s VB.
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VB is the logical L2 switch, it provides MAC address self-learning function.
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How?
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port of L2 switch receives the frame it will broadcast the frame to all the other
ports, at the same time it records the source MAC address of the frame into the
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The working mechanism of VB is the same as L2 switch, the ports of this logical L2 switch
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The spanning tree protocol (STP) blocks certain ports to avoid the loop. Hence, this can
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solve problems.

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to avoid broadcast storms.
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EVPLAN Service can provide multi-point to multi-point transmission with sharing. In order
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The MAC address self-learning and data forwarding of EPLAN service will be based on VB
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UNI port type of SVL VB: Tag Aware and Access
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EVPLAN service forwards data through VB + MAC Address + VLAN/S-VLAN. The VLAN
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Ingress Filtering:
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L e When the bridge switching mode is set to IVL/Enable Ingress Filtering, the ingress
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or Disabled: The ingress filtering depends on the setting of the bridge switching mode.
M When the bridge switching mode is set to SVL/Disable Ingress Filtering, the ingress
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The configuration of EVPLAN (802.1q) service is quite similar with EPLAN service. The only
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difference is the VLAN filter table is necessary in EVPLAN (802.1q) service.

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IEEE 802.1q bridge supports isolation by using one layer of VLAN tags. It checks the
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contents of the VLAN tags that are in the data frames and performs Layer 2 switching
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The IEEE 802.1ad bridge supports data frames with two layers of VLAN tags. It adopts the
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performs Layer 2 switching according to the destination MAC addresses and the S-
a r VLAN IDs of the packets.

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In this case, the VoIP services need to be isolated from the HSI services. User M does not
eneed to communicate with user N. Since the C-VLAN of VoIP and HIS service from user M
or and user N are the same, different S-VLAN should be assigned to isolated the services.

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