SDH Capacity Planning Workshop

Course Overview

Designed to benefit those employed as network planners who require an understanding of capacity planning issues in an SDH environment

Prerequisites

SDH principles (TX10) or equivalent knowledge.

Course Outline

• Review of SDH Transport Structures
• AU and TU Identification Schemes
• Including ETSI and Common Proprietary Schemes
• Review of SDH Network Architecture
• SDH Transport Layers
• Transport Network Partitioning Principles
• Inner and Outer Core Network Layers
• Local Access Layers
• Protection Schemes and their impact on capacity
• The need for grooming and consolidation
• SDH Network Elements
• Terminal Multiplexers, Add and Drop Multiplexers, SDH Cross Connect Switches
• Optical Line System Practices
• Single Mode Fibres in the second and third windows
• Losses, Power and Dispersion, Interface Parameters, Power Budgets
• The need for an effective Network Management System
• The need for secure Network Timing Sources and Clock Distribution Trails
• Capacity Planning workshop