Optical Transport Network

Multiplexing and de-multiplexing of OTN signals

ITU-T denes an Optical Transport Network (OTN)

as a set of Optical Network Elements (ONE) connected
by optical ber links, able to provide functionality of
transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of optical channels carrying client
signals.[1] An ONE may Re-time, Re-Amplify, Re-shape
(3R) but it does not have to be 3R it can be purely photonic.

Mapping and de-mapping of non-OTN signals

into and out of OTN signals
Packet processing in conjunction with mapping/demapping of packet into and out of OTN signals

2.1 Switch fabric

Standards

The OTN signals at all data-rates have the same frame

structure but the frame period reduces as the data-rate
OTN was designed to provide support for optical net- increases. As a result, the Time-Slot Interchange (TSI)
working using wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technique of implementing SONET/SDH switch fabrics
unlike its predecessor SONET/SDH.
is not directly applicable to OTN switch fabrics. OTN
ITU-T Recommendation G.709 is commonly called Op- switch fabrics are typically implemented using Packet
tical Transport Network (OTN) (also called digital Switch Fabrics.
wrapper technology or optical channel wrapper). As
of December 2009, OTN has standardized the following
2.2 FEC Latency
line rates.
The OTUk (k=1/2/2e/3/3e2/4) is an information struc- On a point-to-point OTN link there is latency due to
ture into which another information structure called forward error correction (FEC) processing.
ODUk (k=1/2/2e/3/3e2/4) is mapped. The ODUk signal
is the server layer signal for client signals. The following ODUk information structures are dened in ITU-T 3 See also
Recommendation G.709
G.709

Equipment
4 References

At a very high level the typical signals that OTN equipment at the Optical Channel layer processes are:

[1] ITU-T OTN denitions

[2] OTN oers transparent service delivery, Retrieved June
2, 2007

OTN
SONET/SDH

[3] ODU0 and ODUex A Future-Proof Solution for

OTN Client Mapping (PDF). TPACK A/S. February
2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March
2012.

Ethernet/FibreChannel
Packets

5 External links

A few of the key functions performed on these signals are:

Protocol processing of all the signals . Some of the
more complex processes are:

Anritsu Poster - Details of all OTN areas including

breakdown of the full frame

Forward error correction (FEC) on OTN signals

Optical Transport Network (OTN) Tutorial, ITU-T,

only covers G.709 (2003/03)
1

5
OTN Transporting Ethernet and SDH/SONET JDSU Poster

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