Fiber Optic Carriers

Wholesale customers around the world depend on international fiber optic solutions for transport to meet their growing communications needs. With the advent of Gigabit Ethernet 10 also known as 10GbE, physical limitations and also the properties of the fiber optic carrier face new challenges. The network designer must consider all these aspects before designing a perfect network. As speed increases in these networks, the effects of fiber such as intermodal chromatic dispersion and polarization have become an important factor. This adds to the considerations of the network designer that he or she needs to understand and overcome in order to build a good network.

There are different types of classifications of optical fiber support such as OC-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-1 etc. The optical carrier is used for SONET line and has a speed of nearly 51.84 Mbits / sec. The OC-3 optical carrier is used in the normal network line and having a bit rate of 1552.52 m / sec. The optical carrier can also be compared to SDH in which case the OC-3 may be represented as the electrical STS-3 level.