ECS 289I METRO AND ACCESS NETWORKS (4) SSII
Lecture: 3 hours
Discussion: 1 hour
Prerequisite: Course 152A
Grading: Letter
Catalog Description:
Lectures will focus on contemporary broadband access and metro network architectures, node architectures, technologies, and protocols. Lectures will also present business cases and technology cases for each networking solution. The course will emphasize the design and analysis of emerging platforms and networks for access and metro solutions. Open research problems, challenges, and industry trends will also be discussed.
Expanded Course Description:
The course is aimed at introducing the student to the field of broadband access and metropolitan area networks. Specific topics include:
- Week 1
- Telecom network primer
- Review of optical transmission techniques, switching, and networking principles;
- Week 2
- Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) and variations
- Passive Optical Networks (PON), operations, bandwidth provisioning, management and standards
- Evolution of PON to future WDM-PON, Wireless-Optical integration, long-reach PON and 10 Gbps PONs
- Week 3
- Metro networks employing SONET/SDH and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM); Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers (OADMs), ROADMs, DOADMs
- Week 4
- Metro Ethernet and Carrier Ethernet; Approaches (PBT, T-MPLS, Light-trails, VXC) Resilient packet Rings (RPR)
- Week 5
- Management of optical networks – an overview: ASON and GMPLS paradigms Deployment status of metro optical networking solutions
- Week 6
- Recent developments: Photonic integrated circuits, data centers, QoE based traffic engineering, impairment sensitive flow engineering. Roadmap for the future
Textbook:
None, instructor notes
Instructor: A. Gumaste, Visiting Professor
Prepared by: A. Gumaste (February 2008)
2/08