An Overview of ITU -T G.

709

Monowar Hossain
York University
An Overview of ITU -T G.709
Agenda

 Introduction
 ITU-T G.709 Frame Structure
– Optical channel Transport Unit
– Optical channel Data Unit
– Optical channel Payload unit
– Forward Error correction
 Conclusion
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Introduction

 Interface for the Optical transport network

(OTN)
 Concepts borrowed from SONET/SDH
– Layered structure
– In-service performance monitoring
– Protection
– Other management function
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 Added functionality
– Management of optical channels in the optical
domain
– Forward error correction (FEC) to improve error
performance and enable longer optical spans
 Provides standardize method for managing
optical wavelengths(channels) end to end
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 Three line Rates is defined

– 2,666,057.143 kbs (optical transport unit 1)
– 10,709,225.316 kbs (optical transport unit 2)
– 43,018,413.559 kbs (optical transport unit 3)
 Constant frame rates
– 20.420 kHz (48.971 ms) for OTU1
– 82.027 kHz (12.191 ms) for OTU3
– 329.489 kHz(3.035 ms) for OTU3
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Frame Structure

 Three distinct parts

– Overhead area for operation, administration and
maintenance function
– Pay load area for customer data
– Forward error control(FEC) block
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 Size – 4080 * (4 rows) bytes

 Data is transmitted serially beginning at the top
left first row followed by the second row and so
on.
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 Size – 4080 * 4 rows

 Data is transmitted serially beginning at the top
left first row followed by the second row and so
on.
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 Optical Transport Unit (OTU)

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 OTU overhead
– Section Monitoring(SM) – 3 bytes
– General communication channel (GCCO) – 2 bytes
– Reserved (RS) – 2 bytes
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 Optical channel Data Unit (ODU) overhead

– Reside 1-14 columns of rows 2,3 and 4
– Provide tandem connection monitoring(TCM), end
to end path supervision
– Client signal adaptation via the optical channel
payload unit(OPU)
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 Optical channel Payload Unit (OTU)

– Contains information to support the adaptation of
client signal.
– Located in rows 1-4 of columns 15 and 16.
– Definitions very depending on the client signal being
mapped into the OPU payload.
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 Forward error control(FEC)

– 16 FEC blocks of 16 bytes for the row. 64 bytes/frame
– Reed-Solomon RS(255,239) code
– Uses 16 byte interleaved codecs.
– Can correct up to eight symbol errors(correction mood) and
detect up to 16 symbol errors in the code (detection mood).
– Enables communications to maintain acceptable performance
quality in noisy environment.
– Provide additional coded data for error checking and error
correction
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Conclusion

 Meets two requirements

– To cater for the transmission needs of today’s wide
range of digital services
– To assist network evolution to higher bandwidths
and improved network performance
 A step further toward optical networks
 Question?