Installation Instructions

Chapter 5: Optical routing design
Optical routing design
The optical routing system uses coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) in a grid of eight
optical wavelengths. Use the optical routing system to maximize bandwidth on a single optical fiber.
This chapter provides optical routing system information that you can use to help design your
network.
Optical routing system components
Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) transceivers transmit optical signals from Gigabit Ethernet ports
to multiplexers in a passive optical shelf.
Multiplexers combine multiple wavelengths traveling on different fibers onto a single fiber. At the
receiver end of the link, demultiplexers separate the wavelengths and route them to different fibers,
which terminate at separate CWDM devices. The following figure shows multiplexer and
demultiplexer operations.
Important:
For clarity, the following figure shows a single fiber link with signals traveling in one direction
only. A duplex connection requires communication in the reverse direction as well.
Figure 3: Wavelength division multiplexing
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