OTN has a number of advantages, including:

 Reduction in transport costs: With multiple clients transported on a

single wavelength, OTN provides an economical mechanism to fill
optical network wavelengths.
 Efficient use of optical spectrum: OTN facilitates efficient use of
DWDM capacity by ensuring consistent fill rates across a network
using OTN switches at fiber junctions.
 Determinism: OTN dedicates specific and configurable bandwidth to
each service, group of services, or network partition, guaranteeing
network capacity and managed performance for each client and no
contention between concurrent services or users.
 Virtualized network operations: New virtualization techniques such as
Optical Virtual Private Networks (O-VPNs) provide a dedicated set of
network resources to a client, independent of the rest of the network.
 Flexibility: OTN networks enable operators to employ the
technologies they need now while enabling the adoption of new
technologies as business requirements dictate.
 Secure by design: OTN networks ensure a high level of privacy and
security through hard partitioning of traffic onto dedicated circuits.
 Robust yet simple operations: OTN network management data is
carried on a separate channel, completely isolated from user
application data, so settings are much more difficult to access and
modify through a client interface port.

What Is OTN — Optical Transport Network?

Posted on October 6, 2018 by FS.COM

With the explosion of digital traffic and the ever-growing array of bandwidth-hungry
applications, OTN (Optical Transport Network) evolves from point-to-
point DWDM remedies to scalable and robust optical networking applications that cater
to a wide variety of client signals with equally-varied service requirements. Carriers are
also placing particular emphasis on OTN in the Metro area, where it is shifted rapidly from
SONET/SDH to WDM (wavelength-division multiplexing). With the goal of boosting
bandwidth and increasing network functionality, OTN provides a way to support different
traffic types in a more cost-effective manner than by using SONET/SDH networks. What
is OTN and how will the OTN-based solutions benefit your optical networking?

What Is OTN — Optical Transport Network

It is imperative to clearly define what is meant by the term OTN. OTN is defined by the
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). It’s a digital wrapper technology
which provides an efficient and globally accepted way to multiplex different services onto
optical light paths. The OTN technology or digital wrapper technology provides a network-
wide framework that adds SONET/SDH-like features to WDM equipment. It creates a
transparent, hierarchical network designed for use on both WDM and TDM devices. OTN
integrates functions of transporting, multiplexing, routing, management, supervision, and
builds OTN client (e.g. SONET/SDH, IP, ATM) connections in the Metro and Core
networks.

Five Key Benefits of OTN Network

OTN network combines the advantages of optical transmission and electrical processing
to provide end-to-end, transparent pipe connections, increased spectral efficiency, and
large-capacity transmission capabilities for long-haul transmissions. The primary benefits
of OTN network are presented as follows.
Standard Hierarchy–OTN standards include a standard multiplexing hierarchy, defining
exactly how the lower-rate signals ascend into the higher-rate payloads. This allows the
WDM platform to shift lower-rate services within 10Gbps, 40Gbps, or 100Gbps
wavelengths, without the need for external wavelength demultiplexing and manual
interconnects.
Transport Capacity Expansion–Providing the underlying high-capacity infrastructure for
core interoffice, metropolitan interoffice, and broadband business-access networks.
Carriers deploy OTN to support greatest number of services on least amount of
infrastructure.
Reduced Cost–Transporting multiple clients on a single wavelength, while preserving
their specific requirements, reduces the overall cost of transport and ensures efficient
bandwidth utilization.
Transport Flexibility–Network operators can employ the technologies needed to support
current transport demands, while also enabling future adoption of new technologies as
business needs dictate. It can easily scale to ring networks, end to end networks and
mesh networks.
Timing Transparency–Timing transparency is important for offering wholesale services
for third-party providers. The transparency of OTN enables the networks to carry any
service, including Ethernet, storage, digital video, as well as SONET/SDH without
interfering with the client timing.
FS Optical Transport Network Solutions
FS optical transport network platform is engineered to support CWDM and DWDM based
solutions for high-capacity optical links and conducive to save cabinet space. FS OTN
solutions are associated with a comprehensive list of products to match the future-
proofing fiber and network requirements of every individual network task. FS OTN-based
products cover the WDM MUX/DEMUX, OADM, EDFA, OEO transponder, optical line
protection card, variable optical attenuator, etc. based on various networking
environments.

How to Get a Custom OTN Solution in FS?

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FMU-Mux Demux FMU-OADM FMT-EDFA FMT-OEO FMT-OLP FMT-VOA
Series

Optical Line Protection

Provide high- Add/drop the selected 3R functionality (re- Variable Optical
Descripti Extend the power budget for optical power
performance signal wavelengths in one or amplification, re-shaping, Attenuator for optical
on over long distances monitoring and automatic
division and multiplex multiple channels re-timing) power management
switching

FS.COM focuses on designing various optical transmission solutions to make your

network farther, faster, smarter. To get a customized OTN solution in FS.COM, kindly
submit the following three requirements about your project, then our experienced tech
engineers will design the optimal OTN solution tailored to your specific needs.

Q1: How many spans do you have, and how far between each of the span?

The specific distance your network transports will determine the fundamental equipment
that is needed. Specifically, the transmission distance between each span will indicate
whether the DCM (Dispersion Compensation Module) would be needed to compensate
in the fiber optical link.

Q2: What’s your fiber type and the link loss (typical 0.25dB/KM)?

Our OTN solutions can be tailored to both dual and single fiber type. And link loss is
necessary for collocating the most appropriate optical transceivers and some active
components such as EDFA amplifiers.

Q3: What’s the data rate between each span? And how many businesses do you plan
to transmit?
 To make clear the data rate and capacity for each span in your network is conductive to
choosing the most practical types of MUX or OADM to for your current OTN infrastructure.
And a good acquisition of the numbers of businesses you were to deploy can pave the
way for future network expansion.

Summary
All in all, the OTN technology represents both a technical leap forward in optical
networking over SONET/SDH and a business opportunity for carriers and service
providers alike. OTN networks can fully leverage the transport infrastructure in the era of
data/transport convergence by offering carriers unprecedented architectural flexibility,
client-protocol independence, and service differentiation. To customize any OTN network
solution, please contact us at sales@fs.com.

Item
FMU-Mux Demux FMU-OADM FMT-EDFA FMT-OEO FMT-OLP FMT-VOA
Series

Optical Line Protection

Provide high- Add/drop the selected 3R functionality (re- Variable Optical
Descripti Extend the power budget for optical power
performance signal wavelengths in one or amplification, re-shaping, Attenuator for optical
on over long distances monitoring and automatic
division and multiplex multiple channels re-timing) power management
switching