Optical Networks
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Optical Networks Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Optical Networks (subject code 3710509) as prescribed for EACE · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 29 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3710509)Unit 1 Introduction
- Introduction to Optical Networks: Telecommunications Networks Architecture
- Circuit Switching and Packet switching
- Optical Networks
- Optical Packet Switching
- Transmission Basics
- Components: Multiplexers and Filter Switches
- Wavelength Converters
Unit 2 Client layers of the optical layer
- SONET/SDH: optical transport network, IP, routing and forwarding
- multiprotocol label switching
Unit 3 WDM network elements
- optical line terminals and amplifiers
- optical add/drop multiplexers
- OADM architectures
- reconfigurable OADM
- optical cross connects
Unit 4 Control and management
- network management functions
- optical layer services and interfacing
- performance and fault management
- configuration management
- optical safety
Unit 5 Network Survivability
- protection in SONET/SDH & client layer
- optical layer protection schemes
Unit 6 WDM network design
- LTD and RWA problems
- dimensioning wavelength routing networks
- statistical dimensioning models
Unit 7 Access networks
- Optical time division multiplexing
- header processing
- burst switching
- test beds
- Introduction to PON, GPON, AON
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