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Fiber Optic Communication and Networks (ECE4005)
Fiber Optic Communication and Networks (ECE4005)
Networks (ECE4005)
Dr. Sangeetha R.G
Associate Professor
School of Electronics Engineering
(SENSE)
Active devices
Star Topology
• Central hub – active – control all routing of messages in the network from the
central node to the outlaying node.
• Central hub – passive - information exchange between attached stations. Power
splitter used to divide power to all stations.
Active / Passive
Mesh Topology
• Mesh topology allows significant network configuration flexibility and
• Offers connection protection during multiple link / node failures
Nodes
Trunk Lines
Add-Drop Bus-Coupler Losses
• Losses encountered:
– Connector loss (Lc),
– Tap loss (Ltap),
– Throughput loss (Lth),
– Intrinsic loss and Fiber loss
•
Example
Compare power budget of 3 linear buses that have 5, 10 & 50 stations
Loss factor Loss (dB) Losses for 5 Losses for 10 Losses for 50
stations stations stations
Source 1.0
connector
Coupling 2 x 10.0
(tap) loss
Coupler-to- 2(N-1)x1.0
fiber loss
Fiber loss (N-1)x0.2
Coupler (N-2)x0.9
throughput
Intrinsic Nx0.5
coupler loss
Receiver 1.0
connector
Total loss
Star Network
•
Liner Bus versus Star Network
DS3
DS2
DS1
Predominant before optical era
Additional framing bits stuffed at each level to achieve
synchronization
Not possible to directly add/drop sub-channels
Fig. 12-5: Basic STS-1 SONET frame
Node 1-2
OC-3
Node 2-4; OC-3
Local Area
Star Bus
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F IBE R TO T HE H OME
OLT ONT
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F IBE R T O T HE P REMISES
Implement point-to-multipoint topology purely in
optics:
But need a fiber (pair) to each end user
requires 2 N optical transceivers
complex an d costly to maintain
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access network
T HE P O N - S OLUTION
Another alternative -
avoid costly optic-electronic conversions
use passive splitters – no power needed, unlimited MTBF
only N+1 optical transceivers (minimum possible) !
access network
1:2 passive
splitter
N end users
core
max defined
typically N=32
feeder fiber 128
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