What are the protection types used in WDM technology?

We have 2 types mainly

  • electrical layer
  • optical layer

For electrical layer we have:

  • SNCP

For optical layer we have:

  • OLP
  • client 1+1
  • intra board 1+1

We have other types of protection for the power, fan, cross connection boards, control board.

  • Protection can be 1+1 or 1:1

You can configure the revertive or non revertive mode based on your application scenario.

Ensure the switching Time not exceed 50 milli second.

If revertive mode used, you have to set the WTR.

WTR is wait to restore and it’s range is up to 12 minutes.

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