Implementation of SONET

Author

Say, H. Sabit ; Ching, Yau-Ch

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

12-14 Apr 1994

Firstpage

294

Abstract

We have recognized in the early stage of standards development that the synchronous optical network (SONET) infrastructure would involve several complementary types of transport equipment introduced in an integrated but phased manner., and that a ubiquitous SONET deployment would lead to a restructured transport network, providing many innovative features, but would require substantial new operations support. Several years have passed since the first set of SONET standards was approved. In this paper we examine the status of SONET development and deployment to see whether they meet the original expectations, discuss issues arising from deployment, such as the introduction of new features and the necessary support from operations systems, and briefly discuss the future directions of SONET

Keywords

SONET; optical fibre communication; optical fibre networks; telecommunication standards; SONET deployment; SONET development; SONET standards; fibre optic transport systems; operations support; operations systems; synchronous optical network; transport equipment; ANSI standards; Add-drop multiplexers; Asynchronous transfer mode; Communication standards; Costs; SONET; Standardization; Standards publication; Switches; Synchronous digital hierarchy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 1994. Proceedings., 7th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

Antalya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1772-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.1994.381091

Filename

381091