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Agenda
• Part I: Component overview– Wavelength division multiplexing– Filter technologies– Amplifiers– Fiber and switch technologies
• Part II: Design considerations– Span design– Restorability– Cost optimization in the metro and wide area– Wavelength routing
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SONET and Optical Communications
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Digital data transmission
• All forms of information will soon be carried on an optical infrastructure
MPEG II
Internet
MP3
Images
OpticalNetwork
Voice
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Transmitter
InformationCoding Modulator
Timing source
CommunicationsMedium
•Voice•Video •Data
Bits
Voice over IPMPEG IIEthernet
ATMPacket over SONET
SONET
CopperCoax cableFiber opticsFree space
Carrier: RF, Laser, etc.
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Receiver
Medium
Demodulator Decoding
Timing information
Bits Information
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Representing bits: NRZ vs. RZ
• RZ pulse have better timing information and dispersion tolerance, but are more complicated to process
Return to Zero (RZ) Pulse stream
Non Return to Zero (NRZ) Pulse stream
1 1 1 10
1 1 1 10
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Modulation: FSK
• FSK – Frequency shift keying. Different carrier frequencies represent different data symbols.
"ONE" "ONE" "ONE""ZERO" "ZERO"
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Modulation: PSK
• PSK – Phase shift keying. Different phases of the carrier represent different data symbols.
"ONE" "ONE" "ONE""ZERO" "ZERO"
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Modulation: ASK
• ASK – Amplitude shift keying. Different amplitudes of the carrier represent different data symbols. This is the most common technique for modulating a laser source.
"ONE" "ONE" "ONE""ZERO" "ZERO"
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Examples of digital signals
• 10/100 Ethernet
• Gigabit Ethernet
• FDDI
• T1/DS3
• SONET/SDH– OC3 (STM1), OC12(STM4), OC48
(STM16), OC192 (STM64)
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Phase diagrams
• Phase diagrams show the phase and amplitude for different symbols
O
90
180
270
O
90
180
270
ASK PSK
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Modulation bandwidth
Freq
Power
carrier
Unmodulatedcarrier
Power
carrier Freq
Modulatedcarrier
width = 2X bit rateFor ASK modulated signals,
bandwidth is usually more than twice the bandwidth.
i.e. 10Gbps would occupy more than 20GHz
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Optical Fiber
• Single mode
• Multimode
• Attenuation characteristics– Definition of dB– Power in dBm– Loss vs. wavelength– Wavelength vs. frequency
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Optical fiber
core
cladding buffer coating
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Optical source
• Typical low cost optical transmitter– 850nm or 1310 nm – Modest power –5 to -10dBm (how many
milliwatts is this?)– Uses a laser diode– The current level is modulated to create
ASK “on-off” light signal for 1’s and 0’s
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Higher quality source(more $)
• May use 1550nm wavelength or “ITU” optics (15XX where exact wavelength is specified)– ITU optics makes it WDM capable– High power ~ 0dBm for 100km + reach
• Laser diode with external modulator for cleaner pulses (faster speeds)
• 10Gbps bit rate capable• $10K or more for transmitter
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Detector
• Detectors are typically semiconductor based photodiodes– Generate current based on detecting photons– Low-cost :: PIN Diodes– Higher cost : Avalanche Photodiodes (APD)
• Include some amplification within the detector based on the Avalanche process
• Cost, reach and speed are all considerations in receiver designs.
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Single mode vs. multi-mode• Multimode fiber
allows light many possible paths down the fiber. Different paths have different distances.
• Single mode fiber has a small core and allows only one ‘mode.’
Varying delays in the path length can result in dispersion when the fiber is long and high bit rates are transmitted
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Low-loss regions of fiber
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
1100 1300 1500 1700
Wavelength ()
1550window
Att
enu
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n (
dB
/km
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1310 nm
1550 nm
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Wavelength vs. frequency
• In the neighborhood of 1550 nm, 0.8nm is 100 GHz, 0.4nm is 50 GHz, etc.
c
f
2
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Wavelength plans
• The ITU grid– Standard wavelength spaced 100 GHz
apart. 40 channels currently specified.
• WDM block diagram
Amp
FiberWDM Filters
SONET NE
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Filter technologies
• Thin-film
• AWG
• Bragg-gratings
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WDM Operation• Current technologies allow 50GHz (.4nm) spacing• Dielectric thin-film• Array wave guide (AWG)• Bragg grating
Thin film operation
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Array waveguide
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Bragg grating
opticalcirculator
Bragg grating
Port 1Port 3
Port 2
passes through the Bragg grating, but and are reflected by it.
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Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
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Economics of long-haul WDM: Amplifiers replace regenerators
Terminal TerminalConventional Networks
37 km
Terminal Terminal
100 km
Optically Amplified 4 x 25dB
Number of spans Loss per span
1310nm
1550 nm
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WDM equipment savingsThe Optical to electronic compromise
•Reduce regeneration costs
•Reduce fiber costs
•Quicker turn-up time for new bandwidth
•TDM only•80 regens•8 fiber pairs
•WDM + TDM•3 amplifiers•1 fiber pair
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Equipment savings with Optical Add/Drop
Dropped traffic
All trafficmust be regenerated
Dropped traffic
Pass-through trafficis all-optical
After
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Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA) output
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How much bandwidth in a fiber?
• The 1550 nm window has more than 10 THz of bandwidth.
• Current systems exploit less than 1% of this bandwidth.
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Amplifiers
• Erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs)
• Extended band amplifiers
• Raman amplification
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Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)
• Pump source operates at 980 nm or 1480 nm– These wavelength are matched to characteristics of erbium– Stimulated emission occurs around 1530 nm– New photons at the same wavelength are created
Doped fiberPump source
Weak signal Amplified signal
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Extended band amplification
(nm)
(THz)199.0
1505 1510 1570
192.0193.0194.0196.0 195.0
15551530 1535 1540 1545 1550 1560 1565
ITU Grid Reference Point (193.1THz)
C-Band OA Flat Gain Region
191.0 190.0 186.0
L-Band OA Flat Gain Region
1610
S-Band OA Flat Gain Region
ITUChannel 20
ITU Channel 60
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Raman amplification
• Raman is a phenomenon where a fiber pumped at a certain wavelength exhibits gain 100 nm away. – Doesn’t require specially doped fiber
• Raman amplifiers can be made by pumping the fiber in the ground– Acts as a distributed amplifier compensating for loss
along the fiber– Normal EDFA is a lump source amplifier
• Effective noise figure for Raman can be lower than EDFAs
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Fiber types
• Dispersion– Chromatic dispersion– Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)
• Dispersion management techniques– Lower bit rate– More frequent regeneration– Dispersion compensation– Advanced fiber types
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What is dispersion?
• Dispersion causes pulses to be smeared together as they travel through the fiber.
1 1 1 10
1 1 1 10
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Eye patterns and SNR
• Overlay plotting a 3 symbol sequence (randomly either 000,001, 010,… or 111) yields an ‘eye’ pattern.
• The eye pattern can be used to measure signal quality in terms of dispersion and SNR.
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Two examples of eye patterns. The lower Figure has more dispersion and noise.
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Single mode fiber (SMF) dispersion
Dispersion coefficient vs. wavelength
1012
1416
1820
22
1500 1520 1540 1560 1580 1600
wavelength (nm)
D p
s/(n
m*k
m)
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Dispersion for DS fibers
1530 1540 1550 1560
+2
+4
- 2
- 4
LucentTrueWave
Corning LS
DSF
Dis
pers
ion
(ps/
nm -
km)
Corning LEAF
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Characteristics for common fibers
Fiber type 0, (nm) S0
(ps/nm2*km)
D (ps/nm*km)
Comments
Corning SMF-28 1312 0.09 17 @ 1550 nm
Standard single mode fiber.
Corning SMF/DF 1535-1565 0.075 <=2.7 Dispersion shifted or dispersion compensated fiber.
Corning SMF/LS >=1560 0.08 -0.1>=D>=3.5 Lambda-shifted Non Zero Dispersion Shifted Fiber (NZDSF)
Lucent TrueWave 1518 0.08 1<D<5.5 NZDSF
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Polarization mode dispersion (PMD)
• PMD is caused when different polarizations of the signal experience different amount of dispersion.
• PMD is most prominent when using older fiber that is not perfectly round.
• PMD is most common at 10 Gbps and above.• New PMD compensators are being
developed.
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Optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR)
• OTDR plot shows where reflections occur– Location and loss of splices– Location of Fiber cuts– Overall span loss
Splice 1
Splice 2Cable end
Distance (km)
Lo
ss (
dB
)
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Switch technologies
• Takes us to real optical networking
• What are the obstacles?– Attenuation management– Dispersion management– Performance monitoring– Scalable switches– Wavelength conversion
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Design considerations
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Data traffic is driving network growth
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1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Time
Per
cent
Assumptions - 10% growth in voice traffic per year - Sidgemore’s law for data growth (data demand doubles every 6 months)
Data demand
Voice demand
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Characteristics of data traffic
miles
Number of calls
Voice traffic
miles
Number of flows
IP Traffic
• Voice– Slow steady growth– Predictable growth
pattern– Low bandwidth
consumption– Most calls terminate
within the local area
• Data– Rapid, unpredictable
growth– Huge bandwidth
consumption– Distance insensitive
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Ring inefficiencies
ADM ADM
ADM
ADM
ADM ADM
ADM
ADM
ADM ADM
ADM
ADM
ADM ADM
ADM
ADM
Wasted protectioncapacity
Bottlenecks due tolow drop capacity
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ADM Interconnections with Switch
ADMwp
wp
ADMwp
wp
Switch Local drop traffic
Switch
Local droptraffic
Top view Multi-ring scenario
Interconnecting 8 OC192 rings requires about 640 Gbps switch capacity320 Gbps (line) + 320 Gbps (local and drop)
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Span design
• Signal loss of ~.25dB per km – ~100 km is limit without amplification
• Noise accumulates degrading SNR– Eventually, 3R regeneration required to
clean the signal.
• Dispersion accumulates – Dispersion compensation and 3R to
correct.
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Non linear effects in fiber
• These non-linear effect result because the signals traveling through the fiber slightly change the index of refraction of the fiber– Four-wave mixing (FWM) – When three frequencies in
the fiber: w1, w2 and w3 interact to create for example w4 = w1+w3-w2. W4 might interfere with a desirable wavelength.
– Cross phase modulation (XPM) – When the intensity variations of a signal modulate the phase of other signals in the fiber.
– Self phase modulation (SPM) – When the intensity variations of a signal modulate the phase of the signal.
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Other non-linear effects
• SBS – Stimulated Brillouin Scattering is produced by acoustic waves in the fiber.– Backscattered light depletes power from the forward
traveling lightwaves. – This can be minimized by reducing the signal power
and dithering the wavelengths
• SRS – Stimulated Raman is an interaction between light waves and silica molecules. Power is transferred to wavelengths several nm away.– This can be used for amplifiers
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IP over SONET
• Well-known technology• Provides for ~50ms
restoration• Useful but expensive and not
needed when building an IP network.
ProvisionedConnectionProvisionedConnection ProtectionProtection
SONETSONETADMADM
SONETSONETADMADM
SONETSONETADMADM
SONETSONETADMADM
SONETSONETADMADM
SONETSONETADMADM
WorkingWorkingSONETSONET
ADMADMSONETSONET
ADMADM
SONETRing
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Packet over SONET
• Packet over SONET is the serial transmission of data using SONET framing.
• RFC 1619, “PPP over SONET/SDH” • RFC 1662, “PPP in HDLC-like Framing”• ITU-T G.703 / ANSI T1X1
fla
g
fla
g
PPP header IP packets CRC 16/32
1 4 2/4 1
address (1)control (1)protocol (2)
data
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Reducing the number of boxes
Lower Cost, Complexity, and OverheadLower Cost, Complexity, and OverheadLower Cost, Complexity, and OverheadLower Cost, Complexity, and Overhead
IPIP
ATMATM
OpticalOptical
B-ISDN
IPIP
OpticalOptical
IPIP
SONET/SDHSONET/SDH
OpticalOptical
ATMATM
SONET/SDHSONET/SDH
IPIP
OpticalOptical
Multiplexing, Protection, and Management at Every LayerMultiplexing, Protection, and Management at Every Layer
IP over ATM
IP over SONET/SDH
IP over Optical
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Options when building backbone transport
• High speed OC-192 (10G) backbone– Wavelength specific optics on SONET ADMs– Cutting edge
• OC48 (2.5G) backbone with “Open Interfaces”– ADMs use short-reach optics– Transponders have wavelength specific lasers– “Tried-and-true” technology– Commodity components– Access to full protect bandwidth
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Advantages of each
• OC192– Fewer wavelengths to
manage– Lower cost for 3R
regeneration– Filter technologies match
spectrum of signal• Wavelength drift not
issue• Filter drift not an issue
– 100 GHz thin-film are passive
– Arguably maximum capacity method today
• OC48– Dispersion less of an
issue– PMD not an issue– Fewer 3Rs required– Off-the-shelf technology– Common rate of ATM
and IP switches– Open interfaces– Less expensive
electronics– Runs anywhere
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OC192 economics
10 20 30 40 50 60 Gbps
cost Higher up front cost
when lighting
fiber
Lower average cost per bps for
fully-loaded systems
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OC48 economics
10 20 30 40 50 60 Gbps
cost Lower up front cost
when lighting
fiber Higher average cost per bps for
high capacity routes
Next fibers must be lit
sooner
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Repeater spacing
• Increasing the repeater spacing– reduces the construction costs– reduces the electronics costs for the first few
systems
• But .. WDM system performance will suffer– WDM adds additional losses in the system– Total power must be divided over the number of
waves– Non-linearities are a function of the launch power
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The impact of limited launch power
Number of waves (with limited peak power)
0
50
100
150
200
50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Distance (km)
Nu
mb
er
of
wa
ves
12 km reduction in spacing allows twice the number of waves if launchpower is the limiting factor!!