A review of the four major SONET/SDH rings

Author

Drake, J. Vernon

Author_Institution

Alcatel Network Systems, Inc., Richardson, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1993

fDate

23-26 May 1993

Firstpage

878

Abstract

With ever increasing bandwidths being transported over fiber optic cables, both buried and suspended from poles, rings have become the principal means of providing self healing transport networks. A review is given of the four major ring types that are currently deployed, under development, being defined, or are for further study. These ring types are the unidirectional path switched ring, four-fiber bidirectional line switched ring, two-fiber bidirectional line switched ring, and the unidirectional line switched ring

Keywords

SONET; broadband networks; network topology; optical fibre networks; synchronous digital hierarchy; SONET/SDH rings; fiber optic cables; four-fiber bidirectional line switched ring; self healing transport networks; two-fiber bidirectional line switched ring; unidirectional line switched ring; unidirectional path switched ring; Bandwidth; Communication channels; Communication switching; Condition monitoring; Optical fiber networks; Protection switching; SONET; Switches; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1993. ICC '93 Geneva. Technical Program, Conference Record, IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0950-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1993.397398

Filename

397398