SONET bidirectional ring capacity analysis: a pragmatic view

Author

Smith, Barbara Engel ; Yackle, Clifford

Author_Institution

Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, MO, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

1-5 May 1994

Firstpage

489

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a theoretical analysis of SONET bidirectional rings. It provides significant insight into ring planning by studying the impact of the number of nodes on a ring, realizable assignments, and ring interconnection. A new concept of realizable assignments is developed and studied. Realizable assignments provide a pragmatic method of determining the assignment capacity of the Bidirectional Line Switched Rings. The ring interconnection analysis studies the impact of inter-ring vs. intra-ring demand, drop and continue, and DS1 grooming at ring interconnect nodes on the economic prove-in of rings

Keywords

SONET; channel capacity; telecommunication network routing; DS1 grooming; SONET bidirectional ring; assignment capacity; bidirectional line switched rings; capacity analysis; drop and continue; economics; inter-ring demand; intra-ring demand; realizable assignments; ring interconnect nodes; ring interconnection; ring planning; Bandwidth; Bidirectional control; Costs; DSL; Pattern analysis; Protection; Routing; SONET; Telephony; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1825-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1994.368856

Filename

368856