• Optical Transport Networks from TDM to Packet
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 – Network Architecture
    • 1.1 Common aspects of the network functional model
      • 1.1.1 Network topology
      • 1.1.2 Layering
    • 1.2 Components of the architectural model
      • 1.2.1 Topological components
      • 1.2.2 Transport processing functions
      • 1.2.3 Transport entities
      • 1.2.4 Relationship between topological components and transport entities
    • 1.3 Specific SDH aspects
    • 1.4 Specific OTN aspects
      • 1.4.1 General principles
      • 1.4.2 Implementation of an optical network
      • 1.4.3 Digital OTN layered structure
      • 1.4.4 Optical channel data unit (ODU) layer network
      • 1.4.5 Optical channel transport unit (OTU) layer network
      • 1.4.6 Optical channel layer network (OCh)
      • 1.4.7 ODU time division multiplexing
      • 1.4.8 Interconnection between different domains
      • 1.4.9 Multi-domain OTN
    • 1.5 Specific Ethernet over transport aspects
      • 1.5.1 Ethernet over transport service architecture
      • 1.5.2 Ethernet layer network architecture
      • 1.5.3 Ethernet network topology
  • Chapter 2 – Frame structures, mapping and multiplexing
    • 2.1 SDH specific aspects
      • 2.1.1 SDH frame structures and overhead
      • 2.1.2 SDH mapping/multiplexing
    • 2.2 Specific OTN aspects
      • 2.2.1 OTH frame structure and overhead
      • 2.2.2 OTN mapping and multiplexing
    • 2.3 Specific Ethernet over transport aspects
      • 2.3.1 Types of Ethernet interfaces for frame mapped Ethernet
      • 2.3.2 The NNI basic structure and mapping/multiplexing principles
      • 2.3.3 Ethernet over SDH
      • 2.3.4 Ethernet over OTN
    • 2.4 Common mapping and concatenation aspects
      • 2.4.1 Common mapping aspects (Generic Framing Procedure)
      • 2.4.2 Concatenation (CCAT, VCAT, LCAS)
  • Chapter 3 – Operations, administration, maintenance and provisioning
    • 3.1 Common aspects
      • 3.1.1 The OAM acronym as a functional unity
      • 3.1.2 The OAM acronym broken up
      • 3.1.3 The OAM toolbox
    • 3.2 Specific SDH aspects
    • 3.3 Specific OTN aspects
    • 3.4 Specific Ethernet over transport aspects
      • 3.4.1 Management aspects
      • 3.4.2 OAM functions in packet technologies
      • 3.4.3 OAM PDU format
      • 3.4.4 OAM functions for fault management
      • 3.4.5 OAM functions for performance monitoring
  • Chapter 4 – Protection for survivability
    • 4.1 Common aspects of protection
      • 4.1.1 Network objectives
      • 4.1.2 Protection switching architectures
      • 4.1.3 Protection switching parameters
      • 4.1.4 Protection switching classes
      • 4.1.5 Hold-off timer
      • 4.1.6 Protection switching trigger criteria
      • 4.1.7 Null signal
      • 4.1.8 Automatic protection switching (APS) protocol
      • 4.1.9 Link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS) for protection
      • 4.1.10 Multi-layer survivability
    • 4.2 SDH aspects of protection
      • 4.2.1 Linear virtual container (VC) trail protection
      • 4.2.2 Linear multiplex section protection switching
      • 4.2.3 Multiplex section shared protection rings
      • 4.2.4 Subnetwork connection protection
    • 4.3 OTN aspects of protection
    • 4.4 Ethernet over transport (EoT) protection aspects
      • 4.4.1 Ethernet linear protection (ELP)
      • 4.4.2 Ethernet ring protection (ERP)
  • Chapter 5 – Synchronization, control of jitter and wander
    • 5.1 Common aspects
      • 5.1.1 History
      • 5.1.2 Terminology
      • 5.1.3 Metrics specifications
      • 5.1.4 Synchronization network design
      • 5.1.5 Testing
    • 5.2 Specific SDH aspects
      • 5.2.1 General
      • 5.2.3 Architecture of synchronization networks based on SDH
      • 5.2.4 SDH synchronization performance
      • 5.2.5 Clocks
      • 5.2.6 Network engineering
    • 5.3 Specific OTN aspects
      • 5.3.1 Network requirements
      • 5.3.2 Mapping and multiplexing
      • 5.3.3 Clock specification
      • 5.3.4 Transport of synchronous Ethernet through OTN
    • 5.4 Specific packet network synchronization aspects
      • 5.4.1 Introduction
      • 5.4.2 Timing distribution over the Ethernet physical layer: Synchronous Ethernet
      • 5.4.3 CES timing aspects
      • 5.4.4 Timing via packet-based methods
  • Chapter 6 – Equipment functional requirements
    • 6.1 Equipment functional model
      • 6.1.1 Specification of the atomic functions
      • 6.1.2 Naming of atomic functions
      • 6.1.3 Description of the basic atomic functions
    • 6.2 Atomic functions reference points
    • 6.3 Types of bindings
    • 6.4 Combination of atomic functions
    • 6.5 Application of the functional model to the transport networks
  • Chapter 7 – Equipment management requirements
    • 7.1 Common aspects
      • 7.1.1 Management architecture
      • 7.1.2 Fault management
      • 7.1.3 Configuration management
      • 7.1.4 Account management
      • 7.1.5 Performance management
      • 7.1.6 Security management
    • 7.2 Specific SDH aspects
      • 7.2.1 SDH equipment management requirements
      • 7.2.2 SDH equipment management information model
    • 7.3 Specific OTN aspects
      • 7.3.1 OTN equipment management requirements
      • 7.3.2 OTN equipment management information model
    • 7.4 Specific Ethernet over transport aspects
      • 7.4.1 EoT equipment management requirements
      • 7.4.2 EoT equipment management information model
  • Chapter 8 – Automatically switched optical networks (ASON)
    • 8.1 Basic principles
      • 8.1.1 Business and operational requirements
      • 8.1.2 ASON architecture principles
      • 8.1.3 Types of connections
    • 8.2 Architecture Recommendations
      • 8.2.1 Control plane architecture
      • 8.2.2 Data communication network/signalling communications network (DCN/SCN) architecture
    • 8.3 ASON signalling
      • 8.3.1 Protocol-neutral specifications
      • 8.3.2 Protocol specific specifications
    • 8.4 ASON routing
      • 8.4.1 Generic routing
      • 8.4.2 Link state routing
      • 8.4.3 Remote path query
    • 8.5 ASON autodiscovery
      • 8.5.1 Autodiscovery architecture and requirements
      • 8.5.2 Layer adjacency discovery
    • 8.6 Operation and management
      • 8.6.1 ASON control plane management
      • 8.6.2 ASON Operations
    • 8.7 Considerations on ASON deployment
      • 8.7.1 Potential benefits from ASON networks
      • 8.7.2 Potential challenges related to ASON networks
  • Glossary