INTRODUCTION
TO
BASICS OF ROADM
RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD
DROP MULTIPLEXER
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INTRODUCTION - ROADM
A reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) is a form of
optical add-drop multiplexer that adds the ability to remotely switch
traffic from a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) system at the
wavelength layer.
This is achieved through the use of a wavelength selective switching
module. This allows individual or multiple wavelengths carrying data
channels to be added and/or dropped from a transport fiber without the
need to convert the signals on all of the WDM channels to electronic
signals and back again to optical signals.
ROADM evolution from 2-degree fixed wavelength add-drop to present
>= 8 degree CDC add-drop architecture.
ROADM along with optical amplifiers, multiplexer-demultiplexer,
transponder or/and muxponder cards constitutes a complete, flexible,
optical transport node.
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BENIFITS OF ROADM
The planning of entire bandwidth assignment need not be carried out during
initial deployment of a system. The configuration can be done as and when
required without affecting traffic already passing the ROADM.
Improved network utilization due to single-channel granularity.
Non-block access to any lambda – improved network efficiency
Flexibility & service velocity – drop any channel and any number of channels
at any site
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Integrated auto-power balancing, eliminating costly & timely manual tuning
Full band tunable transponders
Support for interconnected ring and mesh architectures
A-Z end-to-end wavelength provisioning
OPERATIONAL BENIFITS OF ROADM
Operational Simplicity
Remotely configurable.
Per wavelength SW provisioning and management. Simple cabling.
Faster Deployment
No re-engineering when capacity is exceeded as in fixed OADM.
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Increased Reliability
Network requires fewer manual touches.
Software configuration reduces erroneous cabling errors.
FUNCTIONALITY REQUIREMENTS OF ROADM
COLORLESS or COLOR INDEPENDENT functionality
DIRECTIONLESS or DIRECTION INDEPENDENT
functionality
CONTENTIONLESS or WAVELENGTH CONTENTION
FREE functionality
GRIDLESS or FLEXIBLE ITU GRID functionality
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DIRECTIONLESS OR DIRECTION INDEPENDENT
FUNCTIONALITY
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COLORED V/S COLORLESS ROADM
Colored access ports imply that physical access ports (add or drop) are
assigned to a specific wavelength.
Physically change the fiber connectivity between the transceiver and
access ports to change wavelength.
In colorless architecture, without changing port the color of the
wavelength can be reconfigured.
No recabling needed.
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CONTENTIONLESS ROADM
Even with colorless and directionless functionality, the ROADM network is
still limited by the total number of flexible CD add/drop ports available.
If two wavelengths of same color converge at same
add/drop port of WSS - Leads to Wavelength blocking /wavelength
contention!
Solution- Replace CD mux/demux units with new set of add/drop units
called Contentionless add/drop units (n X m unit instead of 1 X n /n X 1)
GRIDLESS OR FLEXIBLE GRID
1) Increase number of channels :80 96 100 150
More channels= more spectrum space.
But problem of physics!.
2) Allocate bandwidth flexibly instead of 50GHz
Not a standard!
3) Signal shaping- DSP in transmitters of transponder
- OFDM
- Nyquist filtering
Thank you
Regard’s
Karan Sindhi
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