Audience
The audience for this course includes IT professionals and managers who are computer literate but may or may not have a networking background. Students should have taken the first four parts of this series (12901-12904).
Objective
- Identify the key features of optical transmission.
- Identify transmission signal parameter characteristics.
- Identify the features of optical transmission types.
- Identify the advantages of a synchronous optical network (SONET).
- Identify the features of SONET signals.
- Identify the advantages of synchronous transmission signals.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Optical Transmission
- Identify the key features of optical transmission.
- Identify transmission signal parameter characteristics.
- Identify the features of optical transmission types.
- Identify the key features of multiplexing.
- Identify Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) features.
- Identify the key features of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM).
- Identify the features of capacity expansion in DWDM.
- Identify the incremental growth features of DWDM.
- Identify the features of the optical unifying layer.
- Identify features of the types of optical network elements.
- Identify the features of amplification.
Unit 2: SONET and SDH
- Identify the advantages of SONET.
- Identify the features of SONET signals.
- Identify the advantages of synchronous transmission signals.
- Identify Synchronous Transfer Signal 1 (STS-1) features.
- Identify the functions of the transport overhead (TOH).
- Identify the key characteristics of pointers.
- Identify the key characteristics of byte stuffing.
- Identify the features of virtual tributaries (VTs).
- Identify SONET multiplexing functions.
- Identify SONET elements.
- Match SONET topologies with their features.
- Identify the benefits of SONET.
- Identify the key characteristics of synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH).
- Identify SDH standards.
- Identify the features of SDH.
- Identify the characteristics of SDH equipment.
- Identify the features of SDH network topology.
- Identify functions of Synchronous Payload Envelope (SPE).
- Identify the functions of the section overhead (SOH).
- Identify the functions supported by the line overhead (LOH).
- Identify the functions supported by the path overhead (POH).
- Identify the features of SONET alarms.
- Identify the features of the SDH frame structure.
Duration
7
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
The network version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
Media
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada