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High Speed Networks. 5 - Fiber Optic Networks Edoardo Berera Telelinea. Plan. Fiberoptic cables UNSA: ATM & Gigabit networks Renater 2 NTI TEN-155 / GEANT FLAG SEA-ME-WE 3 Project OXYGEN . Fiberoptic Cables. UNSA. Backbone ATM 155 Mb/s User access IP over ATM
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High Speed Networks 5 - Fiber Optic Networks Edoardo Berera Telelinea
Plan • Fiberoptic cables • UNSA: ATM & Gigabit networks • Renater 2 • NTI • TEN-155 / GEANT • FLAG • SEA-ME-WE 3 • Project OXYGEN
UNSA • Backbone • ATM 155 Mb/s • User access • IP over ATM • Ethernet 10/100 Mb/s
UNSA • Backbone • ATM 155 Mb/s • Evolution to Gigabit/s campus network • Tests Commutateurs Gigabit Ethernet • User access • IP over ATM • Ethernet 10/100 Mb/s
Renater 2 • Réseau National de Télécommunication pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche • IPv4 et IPv6 (G6)
NTI • Noeud de Transit International
TEN-155 • Trans-European Network • 155 Mb/s
FLAG • Fiber Link Around the Globe
FLAG Cable • Two fibre pairs - each operating at 5 Gb/s. • Over 28,000 kilometres of cable. • 120,000 digital circuits operating at 64 kb/s. • Up to 600,000 simultaneous conversations per segment. • 326 erbium-doped optical amplifiers. • Four fibre-switched branching units. • Diversely routed land crossings - two in Egypt and two in Thailand. • Operational since November 22, 1997 • Installed and commissioned in 27 months • Cost 1.5 B$
Erbium doped optical amplifier Source: IEEE Spectrum
SEA-ME-WE 3 • South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 3 • Germany to Australia, Taiwan, Korea and Japan • operational since August 30, 1999 • 38 000 Km, 2 pairs of fibers • direct optical amplification • wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) • 8 wavelengths (colors) per pair of fibers • bypass units allow the insertion/extraction of one or two colors per fiber • 30 000 telephone circuits per wavelength • 483 840 digital 64 kb/s circuits • 33 countries, 25 years of lifetime, 1.5 B$
WDM and DWDM • Wavelength Division Multiplexing • Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Source: S.V. Kartalopoulos, « Introduction to DWDM Technology: Data in a Rainbow », chapter 5, IEEE/SPIE
Project OXYGEN • Neil Tagare, the originator of the FLAG cable • Bechtel Corporation is OXYGEN's project manager • Lehman Brothers serves as its financial advisor • 169000 km • DWDM technology • 2.56 terabits of capacity • 97 landing points in 76 countries • Initial budget 15 B$
Phase 1B Egypt - Port Said Egypt - Alexandria France - Antibes Gibraltar - Gibraltar Greece - Athens Ireland - Dublin Israel - Tel Aviv Italy - Genoa Italy - Lido Di Ostia Lebanon - Beirut Malta - Valletta Monaco - Monaco Spain - Conil Spain - Barcelona Syria - Tartus Tunisia - Tunis Turkey - Izmir U.K. - Fareham U.S.A. - Tuckerton Landing Points
Project OXYGEN • Subscription price • 10 M$ for 1.24 Gb/s network access for 25 years • plus 9% per year for Operations and Maintenance of Network and Terminal Station
References • CRI, UNSA • Renater • DANTE • FLAG • FCR • Project OXYGEN