Optical Fiber Telecommunications - OFT

The objective of this course is to train students in the methods of study, analysis, design and evaluation of optical fiber communication technologies. First, we will analyze the great evolution in the main technologies related to fiber optics, and key devices to build transmission systems. Next, we will analyze and evaluate the optical switching technologies of the transport plane of Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASON), and the main optical fiber transmission technologies that currently allow the implementation of IP-DWDM transport networks, as well as its likely future evolution. We also briefly discuss the important contribution that fiber optic transmission technology will have on the future evolution of radio access networks (Fronthaul) for the future 5G mobile technology.

Learning results of the subject:

• Ability to analyse, specify, design networks, services, processes and applications of telecommunications in local or long distance, with different bandwidths in IP over fiber optical networks.
• Ability to apply engineering tools as planning tools, dimensioning and optical network analysis.
• Ability to analyse, model and implement new architectures, network protocols and communication interfaces, and new services and applications in optical networks