Training Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Networks
INTRODUCTION
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
- Describing SONET/SDH principles
- Getting familiar with SONET/SDH architecture
- Define the important SONET/SDH terms
- Identifying applications of SONET/SDH
- Describing the detailed workings/operations of SONET/SDH
- Understanding SONET/SDH broadband network operations
- Discussing the issues related to planning, design, implementation and performance
- Describing the limitations of the SONET/SDH technology
- Listing the objectives and characteristics of the next generation SONET/SDH systems
- Describing SONET/SDH principles
- Getting familiar with SONET/SDH architecture
- Define the important SONET/SDH terms
- Identifying applications of SONET/SDH
- Describing the detailed workings/operations of SONET/SDH
- Understanding SONET/SDH broadband network operations
- Discussing the issues related to planning, design, implementation and performance
- Describing the limitations of the SONET/SDH technology
- Listing the objectives and characteristics of the next generation SONET/SDH systems
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Telecommunication engineers
- Software/system/network/IT professionals
- Professionals who plan on using, evaluating, designing or working with SONET/SDH, D/WDM and optical networks
- Technical development and support professionals involved in the support and implementation of networks and services
- Those professionals involved in the design and implementation of next-generation telecommunication solutions
PROGRAM OUTLINE
- Digital telecommunications overview & introduction to synchronization
- Wired/wireless/optical telecommunication channels and selection criteria
- Analog/digital modulation types
- Multiple access techniques (multiplexing, controlled/random access)
- Timing and synchronization concepts
- Delay and synchronization issues in digital telecommunications systems
- Introduction to optical networks and SONET
- SONET/SDH architecture
- Building blocks, architecture and rates
- Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
- SONET/SDH digital hierarchy
- Comparison with the Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH)
- SONET/SDH building blocks
- STS-1 frame format and headers (SOH, LOH, POH)
- SONET/SDH multiplexing
- SONET/SDH pointers and Virtual Tributaries (VT) pointers
- Section/line/path overheads
- Asynchronous and bit/byte synchronous mapping
- Concatenation
- Numbering schemes
- Synchronization and accommodating jitter
- SONET/SDH planning & deployment
- Network planning issues
- Network topologies and elements
- ATM integration
- WDM and DWDM
- Synchronous rings (architectures, structure, cross-connect, traffic patterns, failure conditions, use of matched nodes, capacity utilisation)
- IP over SONET
- Ethernet over SONET
- SONET/SDH standards & interoperability
- Reference models
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standards/recommendations
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standards
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards
- Telcordia specifications
- SONET/SDH equipment types
- Multi-vendor compatibility/interoperability and management
- SONET/SDH Network management issues
- Network management issues & tools
- Configuration, performance, fault, security and accounting management
- Alarm management and handling
- Section, line and path management
- Network management hierarchy
- Optical transport networks (OTN)
- Next generation SONET/SDH
- Virtual concatenation (VCAT)
- Link capacity adjustment scheme (LCAS)