Price: $1,699.00
Course Number: 4030
Length: 2 Days
SONET SDH Training Course
This course provides advanced SONET/SDH and DWDM topics.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed to provide a detailed knowledge on SONET/SDH for or technical managers, consultants, communications professionals, software engineers, system engineers, network professionals, and IT professionals
Objectives
This course provides you with a comprehensive technical details in SONET/SDH and DWDM. Upon completion of this course, the attendees will be able to:
- Understand Digital Voice and Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
- Understand Transmission Hierarchies
- Understand Digital Network Synchronization
- Explore Benefits and Features of SONET/SDH
- Compare and Contrast STS-1 SPE and AU-3
- Understand Automatic Protection Switching (APS)
- Understand Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs)
- Understand Digital Cross-Connects (DCCs)
- Explore the evolution of Timing and Synchronization
- Understand SDH and Tributary Multiplexing
Outline
Digital Voice and Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
- Digital Network Synchronization
- Network Timing and Synchronization Concepts
- PDH Relationships and Network Elements
- Frequency Justification
- Limitations of PDH
SONET/SDH: Protocols and Concepts
- Benefits and Features of SONET/SDH
- Evolution from PDH to SONET/SDH Plesiochronous Networks
- Building-Block Signals
- Unifying SONET and SDH
- Frame Structures
- Overhead Functions
- SONET/SDH Rates and Architectures
- Details of Pointer Processing
- Pointer Adjustment, Positive and Negative Justification
- Pointer Errors
SONET/SDH Path Overhead and Payload Mappings
- Compare and Contrast STS-1 SPE and AU-3
- Compare and Contrast STS-3c SPE and AU-4
- DS-3 Mapping into STS-1 SPE and VC-3
- E-4 Mapping into STS-3c SPE and VC-4 TUG-3 and TU-3
- Virtual Tributary / Tributary Unit Group
- Pointers and Payload Mappings
- Tandem Connections
- ATM Cell Mapping
- Packet over SONET Mapping
- 10G Ethernet over SONET
- Limitations of Octet HDLC in High Bit Error Ratio (BER) Environments
- Simplified Data Link (SDL) Protocol
SONET/SDH Network Elements and Applications
- Terminal Multiplexers (TMs)
- Functional Block Diagram of TMs
- Automatic Protection Switching (APS)
- APS Details:
- Linear APS, 1+1, 1:n, 1:1, Bidirectional, and Unidirectional
- Revertive and Non-Revertive
- Meaning and Operation of K1 and K2 Bytes
- Add/Drop Multiplexers (ADMs)
- Functional Block Diagram of ADMs
- Types of Rings, Ring and Span APS
- UPSR and BLSR, MS-USHR, Virtual Rings, SNCP, MS-SP Ring, and MS-DP Ring
- Limitations of TDM Rings and Methods to Resolve Them
- Digital Cross-Connects (DCCs)
- The Role DCCs in Rings, Meshes, and Virtual Rings
- Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier (NGDLC)
- Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers (DSLAMs)
- SONET/SDH Interfaces on Switches and Routers
Synchronizing SDH and SONET
- Evolution of Timing and Synchronization
- Virtual Container
- Regenerator Section Overhead
- Multiplex Section Overhead
- Higher-Order Path Overhead (VC-4/VC-3)
- Lower-Order Path Overhead (VC-2/VC-1)
- Anomalies, Defects, Failures, and Alarms
- Error Performance Monitoring
- Pointers
- Payload Pointers
- Positive Pointer Justification
- Negative Pointer Justification
SONET/SDH Multiplexing
- SDH Tributary Multiplexing
- Tributary Unit Group TU Multiframe
- TU Payload Pointer Automatic Protection Switching
- Multiplex Section Protection, K1/K2 Bytes
- 1+1 Protection 1:N Protection
- SONET/SDH Telecommunications Standard Primer
- SONET/SDH Multiplexing
- SONET/SDH Signal Hierarchy
- Network Generic Applications
- Network Generic Applications: Equipment and Uses
- Cross-Connect Types
- Trends in Deployment
- Network Design
- SDH Timing Compensation
- SDH Network Management
- SDH Performance Monitoring
- SDH Synchronization