Title :
SONET bidirectional ring capacity analysis: a pragmatic view
Author :
Smith, Barbara Engel ; Yackle, Clifford
Author_Institution :
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents the results of a theoretical analysis of SONET bidirectional rings. It provides significant insight into ring planning by studying the impact of the number of nodes on a ring, realizable assignments, and ring interconnection. A new concept of realizable assignments is developed and studied. Realizable assignments provide a pragmatic method of determining the assignment capacity of the Bidirectional Line Switched Rings. The ring interconnection analysis studies the impact of inter-ring vs. intra-ring demand, drop and continue, and DS1 grooming at ring interconnect nodes on the economic prove-in of rings
Keywords :
SONET; channel capacity; telecommunication network routing; DS1 grooming; SONET bidirectional ring; assignment capacity; bidirectional line switched rings; capacity analysis; drop and continue; economics; inter-ring demand; intra-ring demand; realizable assignments; ring interconnect nodes; ring interconnection; ring planning; Bandwidth; Bidirectional control; Costs; DSL; Pattern analysis; Protection; Routing; SONET; Telephony; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1994. ICC '94, SUPERCOMM/ICC '94, Conference Record, 'Serving Humanity Through Communications.' IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1825-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1994.368856
