Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON)

1 Quick View 3 Control Plane 5 Electrical-Layer ASON

The control plane complies with LMP, OSPF, and RSVP-TE protocols. There two types of electrical-layer ASON: OTN ASON and SDH ASON. Electrical-layer ASON is based on optical-layer server
ASON introduces GMPLS control plane to achieve dynamic connection management, automatic LMP, link management protocol Service link information OSPF, routing protocol
trails. The OTUk link or VC link may be inconsistent with the physical topology.
discovery, protection & restoration, and CAPEX & OPEX reduction. OTN ASON can be easily deployed on standard OTN networks to improve the network reliability.
Neighbor discovery, fault location & link Allocation & collection of routing resources
resource management RSVP-TE, signaling protocol STM-n TE LINK
ASON Fault locating information Automatic building, deleting & Service trail calculation request OTUk TE LINK
Control link information maintenance of connections
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NMI LMP OSPF ODUk Tributary card
Ack Hello
Management DB link ODU ODUk OTUk OTUk ODUk ODU
OSPF OTN VC VC
Plane NMS Control OCC OCC Test Tributary card
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2 SLA Services 4 Optical-Layer ASON 6 T-SDN

The ASON can transport services of different SLAs based on customers requirements. The SLA divides services into various The optical-layer ASON, which is also known as WSON, is Management plane Control plane Multi-domain Interactions Multi-layer Control Plane Evolution Toward T-SDN
levels according to the service protection capability. based on flexible ROADM with the using of WSS
Restoration: local repair + E2E restoration; NMS Centralized Improve flexible configuration and
Diamond service technologies to implement colorless , directionless and Transport plane suited for single vendor network control auto-operation capability of the entire
contentionless applications.
Permanent 1+1 Failure interoperability; online planning and healthy Server GMPLS and non-GMPLS network.
When an LSP of a diamond service fails, the service switches to the
diagnose.
Route creation request
protection LSP and then the faulty LSP is rerouted. In addition, the gridless ROADM is introduced to achieve the Client and APP layer
flexible distribution and efficient use of spectrum bandwidth NMS Centralized
1+1 rerouting control NBI
for the next generation 400G/1T per channel services. Server PKT/SDH NMS
When an LSP fails, the service Failure
Photonic switch (ROADM) Transport controller
Optimal path calculation Network service
switches to the other LSP. The system
Flexible ROADM Similar to that in single domain
other LSP is rerouted upon One
another failure. Colorless Directionless Contentionless Gridless 100 Gbit/s 400 Gbit/s 1 Tbit/s Network operation
control system
OTN plane Control layer
1+1 non-rerouting Gridless bandwidth:
Failure E2E PCEP/Openflow+
No rerouting is performed even when both LSPs fail. Its the same n x one slice (n=4, 5, 6...),
signaling
as traditional 1+1 protection. 12.5 GHz per slice Domain A Domain C
Tunable laser/receiver A wavelength can be The same wavelength WDM
Wavelengths can be transmitted to any can be transmitted to any Wavelengths carrying different gridless
adjusted freely direction. direction from any port. bandwidth can be transmitted to any directions.
Silver service Physical non-GMPLS
Failure plane Physical layer
The LSP is rerouted when it Impairment aware routing Automatic adjustment of performance GMPLS
Domain B
fails. OSNR PMD CD Performance unbalance is supervised and reported.
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ITU-T Standards
Diamond service (Permanent 1+1) Diamond service (1+1 rerouting) Silver service Copper service Nonlinear: SPM XPM FWM Control plane G .8080 ASON Architecture G .7712 DCN G .7713 Signaling
Service Level ITU-T G .7714 Automatic discovery G .7715 Routing
Extra penalty Attenuation
G .7716 Control plane operations G .7718 ASON management
Suggested service type Bank, security service Bank, security service IP private line, internet service Temporary service OSNR Optical power adjustment unit Standards related to ASON architecture and IETF Standards
Receiving Required Optical power is automatically adjusted to guarantee the requirements are defined by ITU-T. RFC 3945 GMPLS framework RFC 4655 PCE Architecture
SNCP SNCP Rerouting RFC 3200 RSVP-TE RFC 4872
Technology Rerouting Rerouting N/A Build mathematics best performance. RFC 4920
E2E P&R
Flex P&R RFC 3471/RFC 3473 RSVP-TE for GMPLS Crankback extension for RSVP-TE
Flex P&R Flex P&R model and Margin RFC 3477 Unnumbered link RFC 5088 OSPF PCE Discovery
OSNR/Power OSNR/Power IETF RFC 3630 OSPF-TE RFC 5440
Protection for the first failure No protection. The calculation Distance
PCEP
RFC 4202 Routing extension for GMPLS RFC 5493 Requirements for the conversion between PC & SPC
Key characteristics Permanent protection and dynamic restoration for Dynamic restoration interrupted services RFC 4203 OSPF extension for GMPLS RFC 5557 Global concurrent optimization
the other failures cannot be restored. Obtain the best route by considering the traffic engineering, Standards related to GMPLS, such as LMP, RFC 4204 LMP RFC 6163 WSON Framework

wavelength restriction, and OSNR margin. OSPF-TE and RSVP-TE, are defined by IETF. RFC 4207 LMP extension for SDH RFC 6205 Generalized labels for lambda-switch
Protection & restoration Both supported Both supported Restoration supported only N/A Before After RFC 4328 GMPLS extension for OTN RFC 6566 WSON framework with impairments
RFC 4606 GMPLS extension for SDH RFC 7025 Requirements for GMPLS Applications of PCE

Ack Acknowledgement LMP Link Management Protocol P&R Protection and Restoration SNCP Subnetwork Connection Protection OptiX OSN 9800
APP Application LSP Label Switched Path PC Permanent Connection SPC Soft Permanent Connection Huaweis OTN Products (ASON supported) U32 U64
ASON Automatically Switched Optical Network NBI Northbound Interface PCE Path Computation Element SPM Self Phase Modulation
Acronyms

CCI Connect and Control Interface NMI Network Management Interface PCEP Path Computation Element Protocol TDM Time Division Multiplexing OptiX OSN 8800
CD Chromatic Dispersion NMS Network Management System PKT Packet TE Traffic Engineering
CP Control Plane OCC Optical Connection Control PMD Polarization Mode Dispersion T-SDN Transport Software-Defined Networking Universal platform T16 T32 T64
E2E End-to-End ODUk Optical Channel Data Unit-k Resv Resource Reservation UNI User Network Interface OptiX OSN 6800 subrack
E-NNI External-Network Network Interface OSNR Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio ROADM Reconfiguration Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer VC Virtual Container
FIU Fiber Interface Unit OSPF Open Shortest Path First RSVP-TE Resource Reservation Protocol-Traffic Engineering WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
FWM Four-wave Mixing OTN Optical Transport Network SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy WSON Wavelength Switched Optical Network
GMPLS Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching OTUk Optical Channel Transport Unit-k SLA Service Level Agreement WSS Wavelength Selective Switching
XPM Cross-phase Modulation