Muxponders versus OTN grooming

Equipment
Muxponders
Favorable if …
• Single purpose network with uniform traffic pattern and few client speeds and protocols
• Client rate = line rate or one order of magnitude in between (1G  10G, 10G  100G)
• Logic traffic pattern star or hub, directed traffic flows
• Stable traffic pattern, long holding time for services, no frequent reconfigurations
• No fast restoration but fast protection and slow restoration sufficient
Muxponders plus • As above plus
ADM • Chain scenarios where few subrate signals are added/dropped to/from a high speed wavelength but other
ODUs are passed through
• Pass through limited to only two line interfaces  ring configurations. Alse where the ring is used for
redundancy, often backhauling to a hub
OTN switching • Multi-tenant network with many purposes, clients, traffic patterns, client speeds and protocols
• Any-to-any traffic pattern in a meshed network
• More than one order of magnitude in between client and line rate, e.g. 1G  100G, different client rates,
e. g. 1G and 10G  100G
• Fast subwavelength service provisioning, e.g. for business services
• L2+ services from the transport network
• More differentiated restoration mechanisms, restoration on part of the services within wavelengths only
• Frequent reconfigurations, many 3R points
OTN switching plus • Mix of the applications above
muxponders • Using muxponders in satellite nodes as onramp, switches in central nodes
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