Title :
Planning and deploying survivable networks
Author :
Smith, Barbara Engel
Author_Institution :
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
The author deals with Southwestern Bell Telephone´s (SWBTs) architectural assessment of self-healing networks in response to customer demand for increased network survivability. She provides a description of SWBT´s SecureNet and self-healing transport network services and the self-healing network architecture deployed. Technical requirements for self-healing networks for the loop and interoffice links using current asynchronous equipment and future synchronous optical network (SONET) equipment are discussed. An assessment of various architecture alternatives using rings and digital cross-connect systems is provided
Keywords :
SONET; reliability; subscriber loops; telecommunication networks; SONET; SecureNet; South Western Bell Telephone; asynchronous equipment; digital cross-connect systems; interoffice links; network deployment; network planning; ring systems; self-healing network architecture; self-healing transport network services; subscriber loops; survivable networks; synchronous optical network; Bandwidth; Central office; Equipment failure; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Protection; Subscriber loops; Telephony; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1991. GLOBECOM '91. 'Countdown to the New Millennium. Featuring a Mini-Theme on: Personal Communications Services
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-697-7
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1991.188717
