SDH / SONET Explained in Functional Models: Modeling the Optical Transport Network

Table of Contents:
Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 History. 1.2 Justification. 1.3 Remarks on the concept. 1.4 Standards structure. 2 Functional modeling. 2.1 Functional architecture of transport networks. 2.2 Functional model requirements. 2.3 Functional model basic structure. 2.4 Functional model detailed structure.2 2.5 Client/server relationship. 2.6 Layer network interworking. 2.7 Linking the functional model and the information model. 2.8 Application of concepts to network topologies and structures. 3 Partitioning and layering. 3.1 Layering concept. 3.2 Partitioning concept. 3.3 Concept applications.9 4 Expansion and reduction. 4.1 Expansion of layer networks. 4.2 General principles of expansion of layers. 4.3 Reduction of detail. 5 Adaptation functions. 5.1 Generic adaptation function. 5.2 Adaptation function examples. 6 Trail termination functions. 6.1 Generic trail termination function. 6.2 Trail termination function examples. 7 Connection functions. 7.1 Generic connection function. 7.2 Connection function example. 7.3 Connection matrix examples. 8 Connection supervision. 8.1 Quality of Service. 8.2 Connection monitoring methods. 8.3 Connection monitoring applications. 9 Protection models. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Protection. 10 Compound functional models and their decomposition. 10.1 LCAS disabled VCAT functions. 10.2 LCAS-capable VCAT functions. 10.3 VCAT network model. 10.4 S4–Xc to S4–Xc interworking function. 10.5 VCAT-CCAT interworking network model. 11 Example functional models to exercise. 11.1 Device level functional model. 11.2 Equipment detailed functional model. 11.3 Network element functional model. 11.4 Trail connection model. 11.5 Synchronization network model. 11.6 OTN network element model. 11.7 Data transport model. 11.8 Ethernet layer network model. 11.9 MPLS layer network model. Glossary. References. Index.

About the Author :
Huub van Helvoort has an M.S.c. in Electrotechnical Engineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven in 1977. He has worked at Philips Telecommunication Industries, AT&T, and as System Architect for Lucent technologies working on ISM successors ADM16/1 and Metro ADM (2nd and 3rd generation SDH equipment). In addition he has taught telecommunication technology to post graduate students at the University of Utrecht. The standardisation of VCAT, LCAS and GFP was one of Helvoort's major achievements. He was the representative for Lucent on these subjects in the international standards body ITUT and the regional standards bodies ANSI T1X1.5 and ETSI TM. He was the editor if ITU-T recommendations G.707, G.783, G.7042. He chaired the working group TM1 and TM1-WP3 in ETSI and of the ETSI standard EN 300 417.