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Course Overview
This is the last course of a five part series that students will learn about optical transmission, multiplexing, optical networks, synchronous optical network (SONET) signals, SONET frames. Additionally, students will learn about overheads, pointers, virtual tributaries, SONET networks, synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), SONET and SDH hierarchies.
Deployment Options
Self-Study
Accreditation
CEU credits: 0.70 CEUs
Objectives
Unit 1: Optical Transmission 3 hours
- 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 4 hours
- 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.
Course Access
Each student has access to the course for a period of 6 months from the day of enrollment in the course.