High Speed Networks

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High Speed Networks

• 5 - Fiber Optic Networks
• Edoardo Berera
• Telelinea

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Plan

• Fiberoptic cables
• UNSA ATM Gigabit networks
• Renater 2
• NTI
• TEN-155 / GEANT
• FLAG
• SEA-ME-WE 3
• Project OXYGEN

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Fiberoptic Cables
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UNSA

• Backbone
• ATM 155 Mb/s
• User access
• IP over ATM
• Ethernet 10/100 Mb/s

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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

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Gigabit Ethernet
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Renater 2

• Réseau National de Télécommunication pour
  lEnseignement et la Recherche
• IPv4 et IPv6 (G6)

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NTI

• Noeud de Transit International

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TEN-155

• Trans-European Network
• 155 Mb/s

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GEANT
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FLAG

• Fiber Link Around the Globe

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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

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Erbium doped optical amplifier
Source IEEE Spectrum
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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

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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
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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

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Landing Points

• 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

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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

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References

• CRI, UNSA
• Renater
• DANTE
• FLAG
• FCR
• Project OXYGEN