Optical Transport Network - Definition

According to the ITU-T Recommendation G.709, an Optical Transport

Network (OTN) is composed of a set of optical network elements
connected by optical fiber links. The network provides functionality of
transport, multiplexing, routing, management, supervision, and
survivability of optical channels carrying client signals.
This architecture can be seen as a combination of the advantages of SDH
technology with the flexibility of DWDM. Using OTN, the OAM&P
functionality of SDH is applied to DWDM optical networks.
OTN offers the following advantages relative to SDH:
Stronger error correction mechanisms,
More levels of tandem connection monitoring,
Transparent transport of client signals,
Switching scalability.

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 OTN Hierarchy overview

Clear
SDH FDDI ATM IP GbE
channel

OH OPUk
Associated
overhead OH ODUk

OH OTUk[v] FEC

OCh OChr
Non-associated
associated

OH

OH
overhead

OCC OCC OCC OCCr OCCr OCCr OCC

r
OH

OOS OMSn
OSC OPS0

OTSn

OTM-n.m OTM-nr.m OTM-0.m

OPUk, ODUk, and OTUk are electrical signals, while the OCh is an optical signal
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OTN Network Example

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ODUflex Concept

The ODUflex concept has been introduced to enhance the flexibility in

mapping data streams to OTN containers.
Two flavors of ODUflex can be distinguished:
ODUflex for CBR client signals,
ODUflex for GFP-F mapped client signals.
The ODUflex concept is similar to the virtual concatenation approach. It
avoids the differential delay problem by constraining the entire ODUflex
to be carried over the same higher-order ODUk.
ODUflex also provides one manageable transport entity per service.

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100G Transport - New OTN Hierarchy

ODU clients LO ODU HO ODU/OTU

×2
1000BASE-X ODU0 ODU1
×8
×80
CBR2G5 OTU1
STM-16/OC-48 ODU1 ×4
×16
×32
CBRx ×n
GFP data ODUflex ODU2
×n ×40
×n
CBR10G OTU2
STM-64/OC-192 ODU2 ×4
×10
10GBASE-R
FC1200 ODU2e ×3
ODU3
×10
CBR40G
STM-256/OC-768 ODU3 OTU3
40GBASE-R ×2
ODU4
100GBASE-R ODU4

OTU4
Legacy G.709 Hierarchy
G.709 Amendment 3 AMP, BMP, or GFP-F
G.709 October 2009 Revision -Consented GMP or GMP-like
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OTN Multiplexing and Mapping

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