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Costs of the Comparison in the DWDM and SDH Network Construction

When we choose the fiber optic devices for our fiber optic networks, cost is necessary factor that we have to consider, almost all the consumers want good quality and affordable products for their network, but there is a point we need to know that is not reasonable to judge which costs of system or technology is more expensive only by the fiber optic devices. Therefore, this page will focus on DWDM system and SDH networks.

The fact that channel spacing’s and frequency stability of CWDM results that EDFAs could not be utilized. As though the DWDM can. The DWDM EDFA Booster amplifier?(shown as the figure) is a cost efficient solution for DWMD fiber optic link amplification which operates at the transmission side of the link. SDH EDFA Booster Amplifier?is designed for the SDH applications which installed after the optical transmitter to increase transmission distance for single wavelength optical module system.

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As we know, the fiber optic module is integrated EDFA, it is divided into optoelectronic integrated EDFA and optical gain module, which has the characteristics of small size, low power consumption and easy to use. Can be installed in various systems easily according to users requirements, such as SDH frame, CATV machine box and DWDM system chassis. In fact, it is the specific infrastructure not only in DWDM system but also SDH networks. Although DWDM EDFA is more expensive than SDH EDFA from the diagram, can we say that the cost we need for DWDM system application is more expensive? No, the answer is negative.

Product Category Product Model Price
CATV Booster Amplifiers CATV-EDFA-BA-24 US$ 1,625.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-23 US$ 1,387.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-22 US$ 1,300.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-21 US$ 1,213.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-20 US$ 1,148.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-19 US$ 1,105.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-18 US$ 1,062.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-17 US$ 1,018.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-16 US$ 975.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-15 US$ 932.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-14 US$ 888.00
CATV-EDFA-BA-13 US$ 845.00
SDH Booster Amplifiers SDH-EDFA-BA-O20 US$ 1,517.00
SDH-EDFA-BA-O10 US$ 1,062.00
SDH-EDFA-BA-O6 US$ 975.00
SDH-EDFA-LA-O20 US$ 1,733.00
SDH-EDFA-LA-O10 US$ 1,408.00
SDH-EDFA-LA-O6 US$ 1,127.00
SDH-EDFA-PA-G30 US$ 1,473.00
SDH-EDFA-PA-G20 US$ 1,300.00
SDH-EDFA-PA-G16 US$ 1,127.00
DWDM Booster Amplifiers DWDM-EDFA-BA-O23 US$ 3,683.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O22 US$ 2,665.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O21 US$ 2,492.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O20 US$ 2,383.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O19 US$ 1,820.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O18 US$ 1,733.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O16 US$ 1,625.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O17 US$ 1,690.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O15 US$ 1,517.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O14 US$ 1,300.00
DWDM-EDFA-BA-O13 US$ 1,408.00

DWDM are technologies that improve the capability of optical cable in carrying data by multiplexing many channels of wavelengths, and SDH are technologies that are used as a buffer interfacing layer for higher layers access the huge capability of Optical transmission system. DWDM is multiple signal transmit over a single fiber called DWDM or Different frequencies (colors/wavelengths/lambdas) for different connections over the single fibre. Full featured DWDM equipment can comprise the same range of cards as SDH. They can support fully configurable cross connect features. DWDM technology provides very high bandwidth long haul inter-connect links. Let’s say in microwave or fiber of point to point terms, SDH equipment is used when you need to connect several site/clients towards star topology. It is conventional TDM based and traffic is dropped and collected in SDH and rerouted towards desired point destination in form of electrical or light signals. Where as DWDM is mostly used at the core and is of fiber, traffic gathered from different equipments (SDH or others) and transported over fiber for analyzing billing or interpretation.

Due to the different characteristics between DWDM and SDH and then they cannot be compared logically. A DWDM ring may be equivalent to 40 SDH rings. But we can compare two rings of different capacities. Well, the only cost savings we will notice is that on the same fiber, we will be able to send multiple lambdas (SDH equipments / routers), using DWDM. SDH costs will be the same and you will add DWDM systems costs, maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and it all depends on the complexity. If you do not use DWDM, you will have to install more fibers for each SDH link. Well, fiber installation costs are high and they depend on the distance and geography. If the operators could transport the data using only SDH which would imply bigger costs for fiber infrastructure, more power consumption. In fact, there are also so many other elements in the network that for monitoring the network, more workers would be needed, they are both in monitoring and field intervention. Except this, DWDM systems are usually more reliable than SDH. So maybe the cost of maintenance would be cheaper. However, you need to keep in mind that DWDM systems amplification can save the use of many SDH repeaters or regenerator. In a word, if you wonder that which infrastructure costs are more reasonable, judge not only by the devices’cost, you need a combination of various factors to have a decision.

Wavelength Multiplexing: CWDM and DWDM

CWDM: An optical industry interim standard uses up to eight wavelengths, this scheme is referred to as coarese wavelengtb division multiplexing(CWDM), in accordance with ITU-T(any channel spacing between 8 and 50 nm). ITU-T Recommendation approved in june 2014, extends this down to 1270 nm(18 wavelengths), anticipating the ready commercial availability of fiber with no “water peak” of loss between the 1310-nm and 1550-nm transmission windows, as discussed in Chapter. Such an extended-wavelength planis, of course, applicable only to nonamplified systems until such time as optical amplifiers with similarly extended bandwidths are developed.

DWDM: The International Telecommunications Union(ITU) has defined a usage plan that can scale to as many as 45 wavelengths in the third window and whose spacings have been further split in some systems to yield twice that number. The defined channel designations are for channels spaced 100 GHz apart (about 0.8 nm). Regardless of whether 200-GHz, 100-GHz, or 50-GHz spacings are used, the usage plan is referred to as dense wavelengtb division multiplexing(DWDM). (More about DWDM: DWDM WIKI)

A fwe properties are common to all the plans, each with obvious parallels in RF technology.

♦ The closer the wavelengths are spaced, the harder(and more expensive) it is to separate them in the demultiplexers and simultaneously achieve adequate adjacent channel isolation, minimal in-channel flatness variation, and low insertion loss.

♦ The closer the wavelengths are spaced,the more frequency stabillity is required of the transmitters.

♦ The closer the wavelengths are spaced, the better the signal transmission velocities will match. Four-wave mixing and cross-phase modelation are both maxmum when the signals travel at nearly the same velocity. The degree of matching is, of course, also dependent on fiber dispersionm with standard fiber having high dispersion at 1550 nm but low dispersion at 1310 nm. By contrast, close wavelength spacing leads to reduced crosstalk from stimulated Raman scattering. These mechanisms are discussed later.

♦ The more wavelengths that share a fiber, the lower must be the power per wavelength for a given amount of mutual interaction due to nonlinear glass properties.

As shown in figure shows the relationship of bands, CWDM channels, and DWDM channels. Gable systems using linear DWDM technology generally use 200-GHz-spaced channels from among the set of 20 listed in Table 1, though a few vendors offer 100GHz spacing. For network designs that use fewer than 20 of the listed wavelengths, various vendors have chosen to offer different subsets.

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             Relationship of wavelength bands.

 

           Wavelength Division Multiplexing
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Most offer C21 through C35 as the first eight, but noe vendor offers C39 through C53 as the second eight, another offers C45 through C59, and a third has chosen to offer C37 through C51. This is obviously inconvenient for operators who wish to have multiple sources for optical transmitters and DWDM Multiplexer.

CWDM/DWDM detailed analysis and related solution of the problem

WDM refers to the process of multiplexing optical signals onto a single fiber. Each optical signal is called a lambda. It typically falls into the 1500-1600 nanometer(nm) range. This range is called the WDM window. WDM allows existing networks to scale in bandwidth without requiring additional fiber pairs. This can reduce the recurring cost of operations for metropolitan-and wide-area networks significantly by deferring fiber installation costs. WDM can also enable solutions otherwise impossible to implement in situations where additional fiber installation is not possible.

Wavelength and frequency are bound by the following formula:

                                   C = wavelength * frequency

Where C stands for constant and refers to the speed of light in a vacuum; therefore wavelength cannot be changed without also changing frequency. Because of this, many people confuse WDM with frequency division multiplexing(FDM). Two factors distinguish WDM from FDM. First, FDM generally describes older multiplexing systems that process electrical signals. WDM refers to newer multiplexing systems that process optical signals. Second, each frequency multiplexed in an FDM system represents a single transmission source. Bycontrast, one of the primary WDM applications is the multiplexing of SONET signals, each of which may carry multiple transmissions from multiple sources via TDM. So, WDM combines TDM and FDM techniques to achieve higher bandwidth utilization.

DWDM refers to closely spaced wavelengths; the closer the spacing, the higher the number of channels(bandwidth) per fiber. The International Telecommunication Union(ITU) G.694.1 standard establishes nominal wavelength spacing for DWDM system. Spacing options are specified via a frequency grid ranging from 12.5 gigahertz(GHz), which equates to approximately 0.1 nm, to 100 GHz, which is approximately 0.8 nm. Many DWDM systems historically have supported only 100 GHz spacing(or a multiple of 100 GHz) because of technical challenges associated with closer spacing. Newer DWDM systems support spacing close than 100 GHz. current products typically support transmission rates of 2.5-10 Gbps, and the 40-Gbps market is expected to emerge in 2006.

You can use two methods to transmit through a DWDM system. One of the methods is transparent. This means that the DWDM system will accept any client signal withou special protocol mappings or frame encapsulation techniques. Using this method, a client device is connected to a transparent interface in the DWDM equipment. The DWDM devices accept the client is optical signal and shift the wavelength into the WDM window. The shifted optical signal is then multiplexed with other shifted signals onto a DWDM trunk. Some DWDM-transparent interfaces can accept abroad range of optical signals, whereas others can accept only a narrow range. Some DWDM-transparent interfaces are protocol aware, meaning that the interface understands the client protocol and can monitor the client signal. When using the transparent method, the entire end-to-end DWDM infrastructure is invisible to the client. All link-level operations are conducted end-to-end through the DWDM infrastructure.

Using the second method, a client dvice is connected to a native interface in the DWDM equipment. Fow example, a Fibre Channel switch port is connected to a Fibre Channel port on a line card in a DWDM chassis. The DWDM device terminates the incoming client signal by supporting the client is protocol and actively participating as an end node o n the client is network. For example, a Fibre Channel port in a DWDM device would exchange low-level Fibre channel signals with a Fibre Channel switch and would appear as a brdge potr(B_Port) to the Fibre Channel switch. This non-transparent DWDM transport service has the benefit of localizing some or all link-level operations on each side of the DWDM infrastructure. Non-transparent DWDM service also permits aggregation at the point of ingress into the DWDM network. For examle, eight 1-Gbps Ethernet(GE) ports culd be aggregated onto a single 1–Gbps lambda. The DWDM device must generate a new optical signal for each client signal that it terminates. The DWDM device must generate a new optical signal for each client signal that it terminates. The newly generated optical signals are in the WDM widow and are multiplexed onto a DWDM trunk. Non-transparent DWDM service also supports monitoring of the client protocol signals.

 

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To the extent that client devices are unaware of the CWDM system, and all link-level operations are conducted end-to-end, transparent CWDM service is essentially the same as transparent DWDM service. Transparent CWDM mux/demux equipment is typically passive(not powered). Passive devices cannot generate or repeat optical signals. Additionally, 10As operate in a small wavelength range that overlaps only three CWDM signals. Some CWDM signals are unaffected by 10As, so each CWDM span must terminate at a distance determined by the unamplified signals. Therefore, no benefit is realized by amplifying any of the CWDMsignals. This means that all optical signal loss introduced by CWDM mux demux equipment, splices, connectors, and the fiber must be subtracted from the launch power of the colored GBIC/SFP installed in the client. Thus, the client GBIC/SFP determines the theoretical maximum distance that can be traversed. Colored GBICs/SFPs typically are limited to 80 km in a point-to-point configuration, but may reach up to 120 km under ideal conditions. Signal monitoring typically is not implemented in CWDM devices.

CWDM/DWDM technical overview

CWDM is an optical technology for transmitting up to 16 channels, each in a separate wavelength or color, over the same fiber strand. The CWDM solutions help enable enter-prises and service providers to increase the bandwidth of an existing Gigabit Ethernet optical infrastructure without adding new fiber strands. Unlike DWDM, which can transmit up to 160 channels on the same fiber by tightly packing them, CWDM technology relies on wider spacing between channels. this design makes CWDM a relatively inexpensive technology for transmitting multiple gigabit-per-second signals on a single fiber strand as compared with DWDM because it can support less-sophisticated, and therefore cheaper, transceiver designs. In the point-to-point configuration shown in Figure 1-1, two rndpoints are directly connected through a fiber link. The ITU has standardized a 20-nm channel-spacing grid for use with CWDM, using the wavelengths between 1310 nm and 1610 nm. Most CWDM systems support eight channels in the 1470-to 1610-nm range. The Fiberstore CWDM Gigabit Interface Converter small form-factor pluggable(SFP) solution allows organizations to add or drop as many as eight channels (Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre Channel) into a pair of single-mode (SM) fiber strands. As a result, the need for additional fiber is minimized. You can create redundant point-to-point links by adding or dropping redundant channels into a second pair of SM fiber strands.

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CWDM Technical Overview

CWDM Multiplexer is achieved thruogh special passive (nonpowered) glass devices known as filters. The filters act as prisms, directing lights from many incoming and outgoing fibers (client ports) to a common transmit and receive trunk pots. Optical multiplexing in a ring with CWDM networks is supported with optical add/drop multiplexers (OADM). OADMs can drop off one or more CWDM wavelengths at a specific location and replace that signal with one or more diferent outbound signals. The Fiberstore CWDM GBIC/SFP solution has two main components: a set of eight different pluggable transceivers (Fiberstore CWDM GBICs and CWDM SFP), and a set of different Fiberstore CWDM passive multiplexers/demultiplexers or OADMs. Both the transceivers and the passive multiplexers are compliant with the CWDM grid defined in the standards. CWDM can be used by enterprises on leased dark fiber to increase capacity (for example, from 1 Gbps to 8 Gbps or 16 Gbps) over metro-area distances. One problem with CWDM is that the wavelengths are not compatible with erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) technology, which amplifies all light signals within their frequency range. CWDM supports up to a 30 -dB power budget on an SM fiber. This restricts the distances over which CWDM may be used. CWDM supports distances of approximately 60 miles (100km) in a point-to-point topology and about 25 miles (40 km) in a ring topology. in some areas, service providers use CWDM to provide lambda or wavelength services. A lambda service is where a provider manages equipment and multiplexes customer traffic onto one or more wavelengths for a high-speed connection, typically bet ween two or more points.

DWDM Technical Overview

DWDM is a core technology in an optical transport network. The concepts of DWDM are similar to those for CWDM. However, DWDM spaces the wavelengths more tightly, yielding up to 160 channels. The tighter channel spacing in DWDM requires more sophisticated, precise,and therefore more expensive transceiver designs. In a service provider is backbone network, the majority of embedded fiber is standard SM fiber with high dispersion in the 1550-nm wubdiw, DWDM supports 32 or more channels in the narrow band around 1550 nm at 100-GHz spacing, or about 0.8 nm, as illustrated in Figure 1-2. Because of the EDFA compatibility of the wavelenths used, DWDM is also available over much longer distances than CWDM and supports metropolitan-area network (MAN) and WAN applications. In practice, signals can travel for up to 75 miles (120 km) between amplifiers if fiber with EDFA is used. At distances of 375 miles (600 km) to 600 miles (1000 km), the signal must be regenerated.

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DWDM can be used as a high-speed enterprise WAN connectivity service. Typical DWDM uses include connectivity between sites and data centers for example 1-, 2-, or 4- Gbps Fiber channel; IBMfiber connectivity (FICON) and Enterprise System Connection(ESCON); and Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Protection options include client-side safeguards using rerouting, an optical splitter that allows the signal to go both ways around a ring or line-card-based protection that detects boss of signal and wraps.

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DWDM vs CWDM the most effective method

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CWDM VS DWDM
DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) is a technology allowing high throughput capacity over longer distances commonly ranging between 44-88 channels/wavelengths and transferring data rates from 100Mbps up to 100Gbps per wavelength. Each wavelength can transparently carry wide range of services such as FE/1/10/40/100GBE, OTU2/OTU3/OTU4, 1/2/4/8/10/16GB FC,STM1/4/16/64, OC3/OC12/OC48/OC-192, HD/SD-SDI and CPRI. The channel spacing of the DWDM solution is defined by the ITU.xxx (ask Omri) standard and can range from 25Ghz, 50GHz and 100GHz which is the most widely used today. Figure – 1 shows a DWDM spectral view of 88ch with 50GHz spacing.

Figure -1: Spectral view of 50GHz spacing 88 DWDM channels/wavelengths
DWDM systems can offer as much as ninety six wavelengths (from 50GHz) associated with combined support kinds, and may transportation in order to miles as much as 3000km through implementing amplifiers, because shown within determine two) as well as distribution compensators therefore growing the actual dietary fiber capability with a element associated with x100. Because of its much more exact as well as stable lasers, the actual DWDM technologies is commonly more costly in the sub-10G prices, however is really a appropriate answer and it is ruling with regard to 10G support prices as well as over supplying big capability information transportation as well as online connectivity more than lengthy miles from inexpensive expenses. The actual DWDM answer these days is usually inlayed along with ROADM (Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer) that allows the actual creating associated with versatile remotely handled national infrastructure by which any kind of wavelength could be additional or even fallen from any kind of website. A good example of DWDM gear is actually nicely shown through PL-1000, PL-1000GM, PL-1000GT, PL-1000RO, PL-2000 as well as PL-1000TN through DK Photonics Systems.
Figure-2 Optical amplifier used in DWDM solution to overcome fiber attenuation and increase distance
CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) proves to be the initial entry point for many organizations due to its lower cost. Each CWDM wavelength typically supports up to 2.5Gbps and can be expanded to 10Gbps support. This transfer rate is sufficient to support GbE, Fast Ethernet or 1/2/4/8/10G FC, STM-1/STM-4/STM-16 / OC3/OC12/OC48, as well as other protocols. The CWDM is limited to 16 wavelengths and is typically deployed at networks up to 80Km since optical amplifiers cannot be used due to the large spacing between channels. An example of this equipment is well demonstrated by PL-400, PL-1000E and PL-2000 by DK Photonics Networks.
You will need to remember that the complete selection regarding DK Photonics’ products was created to help equally DWDM and also CWDM engineering through the use of specifications centered pluggable optical web template modules for instance SFP, XFP and also SFP+. The particular engineering employed will be cautiously computed every venture and also in accordance with consumer specifications regarding length, ability, attenuation and also upcoming wants. DK Photonics furthermore gives migration way coming from CWDM to be able to DWDM permitting lower access expense and also upcoming enlargement which can be looked at inside the DWDM above CWDM engineering site.