5-day Instructor-led with Practical Exercise(s)
, 0900 - 1700
Course Instructor
The trainer has 26 years of solid track record in Telco
environment, both in consulting as well as management
capacity. He was the CEO of Ganesa Telecommunications. At
Ganesa, he started up the Rural CLEC focusing on placement
of fibre-to-the-premise and the "Triple Play" product
offerings in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and
Florida. Apart from P/L responsibilities, he has oversight
of the design, installation, site acquisitions, procurement,
commissioning and operations of FTTP network offering voice,
CATV, and IP services via FTTP network.
Prior to Ganesa, he was the Program Director of Winstar Hong
Kong. At Winstar, he was responsible for the design,
installation, site acquisitions, procurement, commissioning
and operations of LMDS network offering voice and IP
services via LMDS network.
Before Winstar, he was a Technical Consultant with
Teleglobe, and was responsible for the redesign of telephony
networks, including their Interconnects and SS7 networks.
During his career, he has built five international
Greenfield telecommunications companies.
Other positions he had previously held were, namely, Program
Director of Fibrenet Telecom Group (where he was responsible
for turnkey design, installation and commissioning of a
SONET-based transmission network that encompassed (8)
strands of fibre in downtown Manhattan), Technical
Consultant for XO Communications, Global Telesystems Inc,
Program Director for Saudi Aramco etc.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the attendees will be able to:
- Understand SONET/SDH Technology
- Understand SONET/SDH Transmission Hierarchy
- Explore SONET/SDH Architectures & Services
- Understand Digital Signal Synchronization
- Understand SONET/SDH Network Elements
- Develop SDH network architecture and configuration using
Terminal Multiplexer, Regenerator, Add/Drop Multiplexer
(ADMs), Digital
- Cross-Connects and Digital Loop Carrier
- Understand Protection Switching
Course Overview
This course provides an overview of the SONET/SDH and /DWDM
networking elements, and their technologies, required to
build evolving transport networks. It provides you with a
comprehensive business and technical foundation in optical
networks, services and applications development.
Pre-Requisites for Participants
This is an introductory course with no prerequisites.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed to provide a general overview for
strategic or technical managers, consultants, communications
professionals, software engineers, system engineers, network
professionals, marketing and sales professional, IT
professionals, and others who plan on using, evaluating,
designing or working with SONET/SDH, D/WDM and optical networks.
Course Outline
Executive Summary
- Broadband Networks - B-ISDN, ATM, and SONET/SDH
- Optical Networks
- Fiber Optic Fundamentals
- Access, metro, long hual networks
- SONET/SDH Overview
- Overview, Architectures and Services
- SONET/SDH in Cable Television & Broadcast Networks
- SONET/SDH in Enterprise Networks & LANs
- Convergence of Services
- Overview of SONET/SDH Structure & Formats
- Overview of SONET/SDH Products & Features
- Overview of SONET/SDH Networking
- Introduction to Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Overview of Fiber Optics Communications
- Fiber optic transmission
- Optical fibres structure
- Optical amplifiers
- Light sources and transmitters
- Photodiodes and receivers
- Optical communication systems
- Optical components
SDH Architectures & Services
- Evolving Infrastructure & Services
- Inter-Office & Core Networking with SDH
- SDH in the Feeder Section
- Loop Section & the Last Mile
- ADSL (Twisted Pair)
- HFC (Coax)
- FITL/FTTC/FTTH/FTTD (Fiber)
- Strategies for DWDM & SONET/SDH in the 21st Century
- Terminal Multiplexer
- Regenerator
- Add/Drop Multiplexer
- Digital Cross-Connects
- Digital Loop Carrier
- Protection and Survivability
- SONET Rings
- Element Managers
SONET/SDH Network Topologies and Configurations
- Point-to-Point
- Point-to-Multipoint
- Hub Architecture
- Ring Architecture
Span Engineering
- Engineering a SDH and DWDM link
- What are the factors?
- Amplifier power
- Amplifier spacing
- Fiber types
- Channel count and bit rate
- Channel Bit Rate
- Dispersion and polarization
- Non-linear effects
Managing SONET/SDH Networks and Services
- Customer and Carrier Advantages
- OAM&P
- Multi-vendor Interoperability and Management
- Routing
- Event Management
- Performance Management
- Integrated SONET/SDH Management
- Standards for Network and Service Management
- SDH Rings
- SONET/SDH Services
Introduction to DWDM
- Optical Networking and DWDM
- Optical Network Breakthroughs
- Special Fibers
- S, C and L Bands
- Optical Components
- Optical Spectral Filters and Gratings
- Optical Demultiplexers
- The Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)
- The Tunable Laser Diode Operating at 1550 nm
- In-Fiber Bragg Grating
- Light Sources
- Optical Cross-Connects
- Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers
- DWDM and SDH
