Ensuring Intelligent Optical Network Interoperability,
Reliability & Performance
Today’s traditional SONET/SDH networks provide
high levels of reliability based on mature and stable
technologies, however these networks are unsuitable
for the impending bandwidth revolution. Intelligent
optical mesh networks promise to deliver new levels
of optical network scalability, manageability and efficiency.
These new optical transport networks take routing and
signaling technologies from the data networking industry
and adapt them for use in optical transport networks.
While these new technologies bring many benefits to
optical networks, they also introduce new risks that
threaten to compromise the reliability and performance
of a core optical transport network.
New methods are required by equipment developers and
service providers for verifying interoperability, reliability,
and performance of new optical networking elements before
deployment. These new methods are proposed and discussed
in this paper.
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