Certified Optical Network Engineer (CONE)
A unique training course from Optical Technology Training, delivered by licensed partners around the world.
The growth of the Internet, cloud services, 5G networks and AI are all putting immense pressure on the optical networks that support them. On this course you will learn how optical networking technology can meet the key challenges shown below:
All of this whilst keeping costs under control and reducing electrical power consumption so that the Internet doesn’t cost the Earth.
You will appreciate how the powerful combination of coherent transmission & digital signal processing has transformed optical communications at data rates of 100Gb/s, 400Gb/s, 800Gb/s and beyond, comparing coherent lite for shorter distances with long haul coherent solutions.. You will learn about the changes necessary to DWDM systems for operating efficiently at data rates of 400Gb/s, 800Gb/s & above.
Understanding how the right mix of optical and electronic technologies is used to overcome limitations is a recurring theme of the course, as is the role of SDN and its implications for facilitating open systems including open optical line systems, coherent pluggable transceivers, disaggregation, Open ROADMs & white box solutions.
You’ll appreciate the fundamental limitations that apply & the trade-offs & compromises to be made, so that you can make strategic decisions & long-term plans for your network.
Key outcomes
- Design your system to avoid unwanted non-linear effects
- identify the best type of fibre for new projects
- Decide which pluggable form factors are best for your applications
- Plan for efficient deployment of OIF 400ZR for DCI
- Assess the role of coherent lite for shorter distances & compare it with long haul coherent solutions
- Appreciate the trade-offs made by adaptive optical transceivers
- Identify options for delivering 10Tb/s over distances from 100m to trans-oceanic
- Decide on optimum amplification schemes for your network links
- Assess the role of subsea SDM ideologies for terrestrial networks
- Assess the role of flexgrid and plan for its implementation
- Specify appropriate ROADM functionalities for current operations and future developments
- Plan your networks to avoid unnecessary latency
- Decide upon appropriate FEC schemes and DSP technologies
- Assess what role SDN and open networking will have in your network & make plans
- Understand the implications of deploying white box solutions
- Use a methodical process to set valid design strategies and policies, to guide your network design decisions
This is an advanced level course. If you will be attending a public CONE course it is a requirement that you attend the CONA Certified Optical Network Associate course first. Find more info online.
Becoming A CONE
- 6th & 7th generations of optical networks
- The week ahead
Network Demands
Case Study
- Background, roles, project
- Strategy for next 10 years
- Operational requirements
- Network demands
- Constraints, enablers,and solutions
- WhizzieKit C, CD & T series
Managing Light
Handling Non-linear Effects
- Navigating the non-linear
regime - What do we mean by non-linearity?
- Non-linear jargon SRS, SBS, Kerr effect, SPM, XPM, FWM, XpolM, NPN
- Scenarios: symptoms of non-linear effects
- Mitigation & compensation of NLE
- Using non-linear effects
Fibres For Advanced Transmissions Systems
- Trends with comms systems
- Trends with conventional fibres
- Progress with radical fibres
Ins & Outs Of Transceivers
- Jargon & decision factors
- Choosing data rates and form factors
- Distances & transmission technologies
- Pluggables technologies for 100G, 400G, 800G…
- Module & host compatibility
- Pluggable challenges
- On board optics
- Co-packaged optics
Increasing Capacity
Using Light To Transfer More Information
- Key concepts
- Basic modulation formats
- Phase-shifted formats
- Complex signals
- Generating optical signals
- Detecting optical signals
- What’s so great about coherent detection?
Increasing Capacity
- Increasing total capacity
- Increasing baud rate
- Increasing symbol complexity
- Using polarisation multiplexing
- Using wavelength multiplexing
- Space division multiplexing
- The 10 Terabit challenge
Extending Reach
Optimising Amplifier Performance
- Using amplifiers to extend reach
- Using amplifiers to improve system performance
- Assessing L-band amplifiers
- EDFAs v Raman
- EDFA developments
- Optimising EDFA and Raman performance
- Amplifier developments
Submarine Cable Systems
- Submarine cable systems
- Subsea cable system technologies
- SMART cable systems
- Testing subsea systems
- What the rest of us can learn from subsea systems
Increasing Flexibility
Dynamic Optical Networks
- Why, what, when & how of changes
- Managing total & channel power levels
- Directing all the light or wavelengths channels
- Selecting wavelengths dynamically
- Changing wavelengths and spectral ranges
- Exploring dynamic modules:
VOA, DCE, WSS, OCMs etc. - Adaptive optical transceivers:
Open ZR+ @ 100-400G, High end AOTs @ 800G-1.6T
ROADMs
- ROADMs in our case study
- What can ROADMs do for you?
- Colourless, Directionless, Contentionless ROADMs, Flexgrid & openROADMs
- Specifying ROADMs
Controlling Latency
Controlling Latency
- Latency sensitive applications
- The journey
- Minimising latency for critical applications
- Calculating latency
- Measuring latency
Quality of Service
Improving System Performance
- What performance issues might we face?
- Forward Error Correction, 2nd gen & soft-decision FEC
- Digital Signal Processing
- Electronic Dispersion Compensation
- Adaptive optical transceivers
- SDN considerations
Going Open and Interoperable
Software Defined Networking
- SDN in our case study
- SDN without the jargon
- Disaggregation & IPoDWDM
- Issues & action plan
Network Design
Network Design Strategies & Policies
- Challenges and constraints
- Disaggregation and SDN
- Network management and control circuits
- Pluggable transceivers
- Data rates and transmission technologies
- Amplifiers
- ROADM deployments
Assessment
- DCI design assignment
- Main case study assignment
- Theory assessment
Butler Technologies was founded in 1997 in Dublin, to provide testing and monitoring solutions for various industries, and has grown into a global technical solutions company, with a multi skilled team specialising in engineering, sourcing and end to end supply chain. Butler’s goal is to provide customers in the Telecoms and Electronic sectors with a full range of products, services and technical solutions that will enable them to operate more efficiently.
Recognising that great products benefit from great professionals to put them to best use, Butler also supports their customers by providing industry-leading Technical training. Having had an ongoing relationship with OTT for decades as a reseller in Ireland, Butler are now signed up as a full partner able to deliver the Certified Optical Fibre Installer (COFI), Certified Fibre Characterisation Engineer (CFCE), Certified Optical Network Associate (CONA) and Certified Optical Network Engineer (CONE) courses in Ireland and mainland Europe.
Butler are also acting as a reseller for OTT partners in the USA and providing management services to corporate clients to roll out OTT courses in the UK, Ireland, USA, APAC and other regions.
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