OPTICAL NETWORKING

This course intends to explain how an optical network operates, how it is structured and managed.
Students are invited to understand which are the traffic requirements and operator choices behind a network design. To do it, during the course the following concepts are explained:
- Definition of OTN networks
- Routing and grooming
- Resiliency concepts
- Optical reconfiguration
With this course, students will have the knowledge and tools necessary to
- Design and plan optical communication networks
- Implement a planning tool
- Write a report with analysis of a network planning

Course content summary:
Introduction to optical networking: principle and challenges.
Optical network hierarchies: core, metro, and access
Introduction to the network design
Optical Transport Network (OTN)
Capacity and Flow assignment problems in communication networks
Optical switching and routers and Optical terminals
Transparent network evolution
Multilayer networks
Network survivability objectives and resiliency techniques
Automatic optical reconfiguration: from static to dynamic networks
Advantages of reconfigurable and multilayer networks
The future of optical networks: the 5G era