SONET/SDH are digital fiber optic transmission standards developed independently in the US and Europe to transmit data at high speeds over fiber optic cables. SONET defines a hierarchy of electrical signaling levels called STS and uses synchronous TDM multiplexing. It can transmit data from 155 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps and supports ring topologies. SONET defines layers for signal transmission including path, line, section and physical layers. SDH is the international version of SONET and uses similar framing and network elements like multiplexers, regenerators and cross-connects to transmit digital signals over fiber optic networks. DWDM further increases fiber capacity by transmitting multiple wavelengths/channels over the same fiber using wavelength division
2. INTRODUCTION Digital transmission standards for fiber-optic cable Independently developed in USA & Europe SONET (Synchronous Optical Network) by ANSI SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) by ITU-T Synchronous network using synchronous TDM multiplexing All clocks in the system are locked to a master clock It contains the standards for fiber-optic equipments SONET was originally designed for the public telephone network.
3. A bit-way implementation providing end-to-end transport of bit streams. Multiplexing done by byte interleaving. SONET commonly transmits data at speeds between 155 megabits per second (Mbps) and 2.5 gigabits per second (Gbps). One of SONETs most interesting characteristics is its support for a ring topology . Very flexible to carry other transmission systems (DS-0, DS-1, etc)
4. SONET LAYERS SONET defines four layers: path, line, section, and photonic Path layer is responsible for the movement of a signal from its optical source to its optical destination Line layers is for the movement of a signal across a physical line Section layer is for the movement of a signal across a physical section, handling framing, scrambling, and error control Photonic layer corresponds to the physical layer of OSI model
5. Architecture of a SONET system: signals, devices, and connections Signals: SONET(SDH) defines a hierarchy of electrical signaling levels called STSs (Synchronous Transport Signals, (STMs)). Corresponding optical signals are called OCs (Optical Carriers) Devices: STS Multiplexer/ Demultiplexer, Regenerator, Add/Drop Multiplexer and Terminals Path Termination Path Termination Line Termination Line Termination Section Termination path line line line ADM ADM regenerator section section section section
6. Connections: SONET devices are connected using sections , lines , and paths Section: optical link connecting two neighbor devices: mux to mux, mux to regenerator, or regenerator to regenerator Lines: portion of network between two multiplexers Paths: end-to-end portion of the network between two STS multiplexers
7. SONET FRAMES Each synchronous transfer signal STS-n is composed of 8000 frames. Each frame is a two-dimensional matrix of bytes with 9 rows by 90 n columns.
8. A SONET STS-n signal is transmitted at 8000 frames per second Each byte in a SONET frame can carry a digitized voice channel In SONET, the data rate of an STS-n signal is n times the data rate of an STS-1 signal In SONET, the duration of any frame is 125 亮s
13. Mesh Network Ring network has the lack of scalability Mesh network has better performance
14. SONET Advantages Reduced network complexity and cost Allows transportation of all forms of traffic Efficient management of bandwidth at physical layer Standard optical interface De-multiplexing is easy.
15. SONET Disadvantages Strict synchronization schemes required Complex and costly equipment as compared to cheaper Ethernet
17. INTRODUCTION Standard for interfacing optical networks Simple multiplexing process SDH is basically the international version of SONNET SONNET is NORTH AMERICAN version of SDH
18. SDH frame structure STM-1 frame is the basic transmission format for SDH Frame lasts for 125 microseconds It consists of overhead plus a virtual container capacity
19. SDH network elements Regenerator (Reg.) Terminal Multiplexer (TM) Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) Digital Cross Connect (DXC)
20. REGENERATOR It mainly performs 3R function: 1R Reamplification 2R Retiming 3R Reshaping It regenerates the clock and amplifies the incoming distorted and attenuated signal. It derive the clock signal from the incoming data stream. STM-N STM-N Regenerator
21. Terminal Multiplexer (TM) It combines the Plesionchronous and synchronous input signals into higher bit rate STM-N Signal. Terminal Multiplexer STM-N PDH SDH
29. Multiple channels of information carried over the same fibre, each using an individual wavelength Dense WDM is WDM utilising closely spaced channels Channel spacing reduced to 1.6 nm and less Cost effective way of increasing capacity without replacing fibre Allows new optical network topologies, for example high speed metropolitian rings Wavelength Division Multiplexer Wavelength Division Demultiplexer 1 A 2 3 B C 1 X 2 3 Y Z 1 2 + 3 Fibre
30. ITU Recommendation is G.692 "Optical interfaces for multichannel systems with optical amplifiers" G.692 includes a number of DWDM channel plans Channel separation set at: 50, 100 and 200 GHz equivalent to approximate wavelength spacings of 0.4, 0.8 and 1.6 nm Channels lie in the range 1530.3 nm to 1567.1 nm (so-called C-Band) Newer "L-Band" exists from about 1570 nm to 1620 nm Supervisory channel also specified at 1510 nm to handle alarms and monitoring
32. Transmitters DWDM Multiplexer Power Amp Line Amp Line Amp Optical fibre Receive Preamp DWDM DeMultiplexer Receivers Each wavelength behaves as if it has it own "virtual fibre" Optical amplifiers needed to overcome losses in mux/demux and long fibre spans
34. DWDM Advantages Greater fibre capacity Easier network expansion No new fibre needed Just add a new wavelength Incremental cost for a new channel is low No need to replace many components such as optical amplifiers DWDM systems capable of longer span lengths TDM approach using STM-64 is more costly and more susceptible to chromatic and polarization mode dispersion Can move to STM-64 when economics improve
35. DWDM Disadvantages Not cost-effective for low channel numbers Fixed cost of mux/demux, transponder, other system components Introduces another element, the frequency domain, to network design and management SONET/SDH network management systems not well equipped to handle DWDM topologies DWDM performance monitoring and protection methodologies developing