[pt] Neste trabalho são estudadas cascatas de amplificadores a fibra óptica dopada com Érbio (EDFAs) inseridas em redes ópticas multiplexadas em comprimento de onda (WDM). Modelos numéricos são desenvolvidos e implementados para estudar o efeito da variação do número de canais amplificados pela cascata de EDFAs no desempenho de redes WDM submetidas a funções de adição/retirada de canais. Considerando condições em estado estacionário, é desenvolvida uma inovadora configuração amplificadora WDM, que oferece robustez e bom desempenho diante da carga variável de canais transportados em enlaces de redes ópticas WDM. Transientes de potência em cascatas de EDFAs, assim como técnicas de compensação dos mesmos, são analisados. O estudo permite avaliar as vantagens e limitações dos modelos dinâmicos apresentados, assim como o desempenho das técnicas de controle de transientes de potência em cascatas de EDFAs, em condições realistas de operação. / [en] In this work Erbium Fiber-Doped Amplifiers (EDFAs) cascades in Wavelength Division Multiplexed optical networks (WDMs) are studied. Computer numerical models are developed and implemented in order to study the effect of the EDFA channel number variation in the performance of optical networks submitted to channels add/drop function. Initially, steady state conditions are considered. Then, a WDM amplifier configuration formed by EDFAs, power compensators and optical filters is developed. This configuration - which is a novel one - has shown to be robust and to offer a good performance, in regard to the variable load of the transported channels in WDM network links. In order to obtain a more detailed study of power transients in cascades of EDFA, two dynamic computer models of these amplifiers are implemented: (i) - a simple one, that neglects the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and; (ii) - a second one, which rigorously consider all noise-derived effects in an EDFA cascade. In order to achieve power transients control, several compensation techniques are studied and implemented. A comparative analysis, concerning the efficiency of the above mentioned compensation techniques is carried out. Advantages and limitations of two dynamic introduced models were also evaluated, as well the control techniques of power transients in EDFA cascades.

Wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical networks are rapidly becoming the technology of choice in next-generation Internet architectures. This dissertation addresses the important issues of improving four aspects of optical networks, namely, routing efficiency, fairness, differentiated quality of service (QoS) and throughput. A new approach for implementing efficient routing and wavelength assignment in WDM networks is proposed and evaluated. In this approach, the state of a multiple-fiber link is represented by a compact bitmap computed as the logical union of the bitmaps of the free wavelengths in the fibers of this link. A modified Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and a wavelength assignment algorithm are developed using fast logical operations on the bitmap representation. In optical burst switched (OBS) networks, the burst dropping probability increases as the number of hops in the lightpath of the burst increases. Two schemes are proposed and evaluated to alleviate this unfairness. The two schemes have simple logic, and alleviate the beat-down unfairness problem without negatively impacting the overall throughput of the system. Two similar schemes to provide differentiated services in OBS networks are introduced. A new scheme to improve the fairness of OBS networks based on burst preemption is presented. The scheme uses carefully designed constraints to avoid excessive wasted channel reservations, reduce cascaded useless preemptions, and maintain healthy throughput levels. A new scheme to improve the throughput of OBS networks based on burst preemption is presented. An analytical model is developed to compute the throughput of the network for the special case when the network has a ring topology and the preemption weight is based solely on burst size. The analytical model is quite accurate and gives results close to those obtained by simulation. Finally, a preemption-based scheme for the concurrent improvement of throughput and burst fairness in OBS networks is proposed and evaluated. The scheme uses a preemption weight consisting of two terms: the first term is a function of the size of the burst and the second term is the product of the hop count times the length of the lightpath of the burst.

Optical networking, employing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), is seen as the technology of the future for the Internet. This dissertation investigates several important problems affecting optical circuit switching (OCS) and optical burst switching (OBS) networks. Novel algorithms and new approaches to improve the performance of these networks through effective routing and channel scheduling are presented. Extensive simulations and analytical modeling have both been used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms in achieving lower blocking probability, better fairness as well as faster switching. The simulation tests were performed over a variety of optical network topologies including the ring and mesh topologies, the U.S. Long-Haul topology, the Abilene high-speed optical network used in Internet 2, the Toronto Metropolitan topology and the European Optical topology. Optical routing protocols previously published in the literature have largely ignored the noise and timing jitter accumulation caused by cascading several wavelength conversions along the lightpath of the data burst. This dissertation has identified and evaluated a new constraint, called the wavelength conversion cascading constraint. According to this constraint, the deployment of wavelength converters in future optical networks will be constrained by a bound on the number of wavelength conversions that a signal can go through when it is switched all-optically from the source to the destination. Extensive simulation results have conclusively demonstrated that the presence of this constraint causes significant performance deterioration in existing routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) algorithms. Higher blocking probability and/or worse fairness have been observed for existing RWA algorithms when the cascading constraint is not ignored. To counteract the negative side effect of the cascading constraint, two constraint-aware routing algorithms are proposed for OCS networks: the desirable greedy algorithm and the weighted adaptive algorithm. The two algorithms perform source routing using link connectivity and the global state information of each wavelength. Extensive comparative simulation results have illustrated that by limiting the negative cascading impact to the minimum extent practicable, the proposed approaches can dramatically decrease the blocking probability for a variety of optical network topologies. The dissertation has developed a suite of three fairness-improving adaptive routing algorithms in OBS networks. The adaptive routing schemes consider the transient link congestion at the moment when bursts arrive and use this information to reduce the overall burst loss probability. The proposed schemes also resolve the intrinsic unfairness defect of existing popular signaling protocols. The extensive simulation results have shown that the proposed schemes generally outperform the popular shortest path routing algorithm and the improvement could be substantial. A two-dimensional Markov chain analytical model has also been developed and used to analyze the burst loss probabilities for symmetrical ring networks. The accuracy of the model has been validated by simulation. Effective proactive routing and preemptive channel scheduling have also been proposed to address the conversion cascading constraint in OBS environments. The proactive routing adapts the fairness-improving adaptive routing mentioned earlier to the environment of cascaded wavelength conversions. On the other hand, the preemptive channel scheduling approach uses a dynamic priority for each burst based on the constraint threshold and the current number of performed wavelength conversions. Empirical results have proved that when the cascading constraint is present, both approaches would not only decrease the burst loss rates greatly, but also improve the transmission fairness among bursts with different hop counts to a large extent.

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A crescente demanda de tráfego em redes de acesso pressiona a melhor utilização das redes backbone, que são utilizadas para transporte de grandes taxas de dados em diversos domínios (Sistemas Autônomos, SAs). Com o aumento destas redes, aumenta-se a complexidade de topologia das interligações entre domínios. Desta maneira, roteamento de tráfego e pontos de interconexão de SAs (nós de borda) são questões importantes para o desempenho destas redes, que são operadas por diversos provedores que podem utilizar protocolos de comunicação distintos. Neste sentido, o roteamento interdomínio apresenta desafios como a publicação ou não de informações de parâmetros de rede de SAs e como tratar esta questão de maneira globalizada, com novos protocolos e suas especificações. Em termos de pontos de interconexão de SAs, a especificação dos locais onde enlaces inter-redes são conectados aos domínios são importantes para seu desempenho, já que são responsáveis por toda troca de tráfego entre redes distintas. O trabalho considera redes ópticas opacas e translúcidas em cenário multidomínio com bandas multigranulares. Neste cenário é estudado um algoritmo de roteamento multidomínio. No trabalho também é feito um planejamento, especificando em quais nós serão conectados enlaces interdomínio. A principal contribuição deste trabalho é o estudo de planejamento de enlaces interdomínio, com a proposta de um método para escolha de nós de borda (sistematização), com objetivo de diminuir a probabilidade de bloqueio interdomínio. A sistematização é baseada em estudos de resultados de algoritmo genético desenvolvido para o mesmo propósito e sua utilização diminui em até 42% o bloqueio interdomínio. Um algoritmo de alocação de banda também foi desenvolvido para redes multidomínio, que considera parâmetros da camada de rede e óptica para o cálculo de peso de enlaces para encontrar caminhos ópticos entre nós fonte e destino. Os resultados mostram diminuição de até 35% no bloqueio interdomínio com a modificação feita em algoritmo proposto na literatura. / The huge demand for traffic in last mile networks push the better utilization of backbone networks, which are used to transport large data rates in several domains (Autonomous Systems, ASs). With this growth, the topology complexity of interdomain links increases. Then, traffic routing and interconnection points of ASs (border nodes) are relevant questions for the performance of these networks, which are managed by several providers that can use distinct communications protocols. Thus, the interdomain routing presents challenges such as the decision on publishing or not the network´s parameters from ASs and how to deal with this issue in a global way, with new protocols and its specifications. For interconnection points between ASs, the points where interdomain links are connected are important for their performances, since they are responsible for all traffic exchange between distinct networks. This work considers opaque and translucent optical networks in a multidomain scenario with multigranular data rates. In this scenario a multidomain routing algorithm is studied and a network planning is developed, specifying the nodes where interdomain links are connected. The main contribution of this work is the planning of interdomain links, with the proposal of a method for border nodes selection (systematization), with the objective of decreasing the interdomain blocking probability. The systematization is based on the results from a genetic algorithm developed for the same purpose and its utilization decrease up to 42% of the interdomain blocking. A bandwidth allocation algorithm was also created for multidomain scenarios, that considers parameters from network and optical layer for the link weight calculation in order to find optimal paths. The results show a decreasing of up to 35% for interdomain blocking with a contribution based on literature\'s work.

Recently there is an emergence of many Internet applications such as multimedia, video conferencing, distributed interactive simulations (DIS), and high-performance scientific computations like Grid computing. These applications require huge amount of bandwidth and a viable communication paradigm to coordinate with multiple sources and destinations. Optical networks are the potential candidates for providing high bandwidth requirement. Existing communication paradigms include broadcast, and multicast. Hence supporting these paradigms over optical networks is necessary. Multicasting over optical networks has been well investigated in the literature. QoS policies implemented in IP does not apply for Wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) or optical burst switched (OBS) networks, as the optical counterpart for store-and-forward model does not exist. Hence there is a need to provision QoS over optical networks. These QoS requirements can include contention, optical signal quality, reliability and delay. To support these diverse requirements, optical networks must be able to manage the available resources effectively. Destinations participating in the multicast session are fixed (or rather static). Due to the random contention in the network, if at least one or more destination(s) is not reachable, requested multicast session cannot be established. This results in loss of multicast request with high probability of blocking. Incorporating wavelength converters (WCs) at the core nodes can decrease the contention loss, however WCs require optical-electrical-optical (O/E/O) conversion. This increases the delay incurred by optical signal. On the other hand all-optical WCs are expensive and increase the cost of the network if deployed. Goal of this thesis is, to provide hop-to-hop QoS on an existing all-optical network (AON) with no WC and optical regeneration capability. In order to minimize the request vi Abstract vii lost due to contention in AON, we propose a variation of multicasting called Quorumcasting or Manycasting. In Quorumcasting destinations can join (or leave) to (or from) the group depending on whether they are reachable or not. In other words destinations have to be determined rather than knowing them prior, as in the case of multicasting. Quorum pool is minimum number of destinations that are required to be participated in the session for successful accomplishment of the job (k be the size of quorum pool). Providing QoS for manycasting over OBS has not been addressed in the literature. Given the multicast group (with cardinality m > k) and the number of destinations required to be participated, the contribution of this work is based on providing necessary QoS. In this thesis we study the behavior of manycasting over OBS networks. In OBS networks, packets from the upper-layer (such as IP, ATM, STM) are assembled and a burst is created at the edge router. By using O/E/O conversion at the edge nodes, these optical bursts are scheduled to the core node. Control header packet or burst header packet (BHP) is sent to prior to the transmission of burst. The BHP configures the core nodes and the burst is scheduled on the channel after certain offset time. In the first part of the thesis, we explain the different distributed applications with primary focus on Grid over OBS (GoOBS). We study the loss scenario due contention and inadequate signal quality for an unicast case in OBS network. We further extend this to manycasting. We modify the BHP header fields to make the burst aware of not only contention on the next-hop link, but also bit-error rate (BER). By using recursive signal and noise power relations, we calculate the BER (or q-factor) of the link and schedule the burst only if the required BER threshold is met. Thus all the bursts that reach the next-hop node ensure that contention and BER constraint are met. This are called “Impairment-Aware (IA) Scheduling”. Burst loss in the network increases due to BER constraint. Hence we propose algorithms to decrease the burst loss and simultaneously providing the sufficient optical signal quality. We propose three algorithms called IA-shortest path tree (IA-SPT), IA-static over provisioning (IA-SOP), and IA-dynamic membership (IA-DM). In IA-SPT destination set is sorted in the non-decreasing order of the hop-distance from source. First k of them are selected and bursts are scheduled to Abstract viii these destinations along the shortest path. In IA-SOP we select additional k0(_ m − k) destinations where k0 is the over provisioning factor. Over provisioning ensures that burst at least reach k of them, decreasing the contention blocking. However as the burst has to span more destinations, the fan-out of the multicast capable switch will be more and the BER could be high. In IA-DM destinations are dynamically added or removed, depending on contention and BER. Destination is removed and new destination is added based on the two constraints. Our simulation results shows that IA-DM out performs the other two algorithms in terms of request blocking. We show that IP-based many casting has poor performance and hence there is a need for supporting many casting over OBS networks. We verify our simulation results with the proposed analytical method. In the next part, we focus on provisioning QoS in many casting. QoS parameters considered for analysis include, signal quality i.e., optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR), reliability of the link and, propagation delay. In this work we consider application based QoS provisioning. In other words, given the threshold requirements of an application, our aim is to successfully schedule the burst to the quorum pool satisfying the threshold conditions. We use a de-centralized way of the scheduling the burst, using BHP. With the help of local-network state information, the burst is scheduled only if it satisfies multiple set of constraints. Corresponding reception of burst at the node ensures that all the QoS constraints are met and burst is forwarded to the next hop. QoS attributes are either multiplicative or additive. Noise factor of the optical signal and reliability factor are multiplicative constraints, where as propagation delay is additive. We define a path information vector, which provides the QoS information of the burst at every node. Using lattice theory we define an ordering, such that noise factor and propagation delay are minimum and reliability is maximum. Using path algebra we compute the overall QoS attributes. Due to multiple set of constraints, the request blocking could be high. We propose algorithms to minimize request blocking for Multiple Constrained Many cast Problem (MCMP). We propose two algorithms MCM-SPT and MCM-DM. We consider different set of service thresholds, such as real time and data service thresholds. Real time services impose restriction on signal quality and the propagation delay. On the other hand Abstract ix data services require high reliability and signal quality. Our simulation study shows that MCM-SPT performs better than MCM-DM for real-time services and the data services can be provisioned using MCM-DM.

Στις μέρες μας, οι αυξανόμενες απαιτήσεις για υπηρεσίες υψηλού φασματικού εύρους ζώνης επιβάλλουν την ανάπτυξη νέων τεχνολογιών στο σχεδιασμό των δικτύων νέας γενιάς, ικανές να προσφέρουν α) χαμηλό κόστος κατά το σχεδιασμό του συστήματος, β) μεγάλη απόσταση μετάδοσης, γ) πολλοί χρήστες και δ) υψηλό εύρος ζώνης στην πλευρά του χρήστη για την παροχή των νέων υπηρεσιών. Ωστόσο, τα οπτικά δίκτυα λόγω των αναλογικών χαρακτηριστικών των οπτικών σημάτων τους, υποφέρουν από γραμμικές και μη γραμμικές παραμορφώσεις. Αυτές οι παραμορφώσεις επηρεάζουν άμεσα την απόδοση των συστημάτων και η επίδραση τους αυξάνει με την αύξηση του ρυθμού μετάδοσης. Παραδοσιακά χρησιμοποιούνται οπτικοί τρόποι για την εξομάλυνση των παραμορφώσεων. Ωστόσο, η ραγδαία ανάπτυξη στον τομέα των ηλεκτρονικών αναδεικνύει την ηλεκτρονική εξομάλυνση των παραμορφώσεων ως μία ευέλικτη, χαμηλού κόστους ολοκληρωμένη και βιώσιμη λύση που αποφεύγει τις επιπρόσθετες οπτικές απώλειες. Σκοπός της διδακτορικής διατριβής είναι η εξομάλυνση με αποδοτικό τρόπο των πιο σημαντικών παραμορφώσεων (χρωματική διασπορά, αυτοδιαμόρφωση φάσης και φαινόμενο αλληλουχίας φίλτρων) που δημιουργούνται στα οπτικά δίκτυα και ειδικότερα στα μητροπολιτικά δίκτυα, στα δίκτυα πρόσβασης, και στα παθητικά δίκτυα. Από σχεδιαστικής πλευράς του συστήματος, αυτή η διατριβή προτείνει τη βέλτιστη χρησιμοποίηση λύσεων χαμηλού κόστους, ικανές να επεκτείνουν (σε ρυθμό μετάδοσης και απόσταση) την χρησιμοποίησή τους σε οπτικά δίκτυα νέας γενιάς. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, η απόδοση της ηλεκτρονικής αντιστάθμισης μελετάται για συστήματα που χρησιμοποιούν χαμηλού κόστους, συμβατικούς πομπούς laser άμεσης διαμόρφωσης (DML), που οδηγούνται στα 10 Gb/s. Σκοπός σε αυτήν την περίπτωση είναι η αύξηση της απόστασης και του ρυθμού μετάδοσης που μπορεί να επιτευχθεί, εξομαλύνοντας τις παραμορφώσεις που δημιουργούνται εξαιτίας των χαρακτηριστικών των πομπών και αυτών που δημιουργούνται κατά τη μετάδοση του σήματος (χρωματική διασπορά, αυτοδιαμόρφωση φάσης και φαινόμενο αλληλουχίας φίλτρων) με την βέλτιστη χρησιμοποίηση ηλεκτρονικού εξισωτή. Επιπλέον, όσον αφορά τα παθητικά δίκτυα πρόσβασης νέας γενιάς, μελετάται μία αποδοτική και χρήσιμη τεχνική, χρησιμοποιώντας τα πλεονεκτήματα της χρήσης του ηλεκτρονικού εξισωτή στην πλευρά του δέκτη (OLT). Η πειραματική μελέτη εστιάζει στα παθητικά οπτικά δίκτυα (PON) στα 10 Gb/s χρησιμοποιώντας χαμηλού κόστους, χαμηλού εύρους ζώνης RSOA στην πλευρά του χρήστη (ONU), και ηλεκτρονικό εξισωτή στην πλευρά του δέκτη (OLT). Αυτή η τεχνική προσφέρει την απαιτούμενη ευελιξία για την προσαρμογή στις καινούργιες συνθήκες του συστήματος και την υλοποίηση των απαιτήσεων (πολύ μεγάλες αποστάσεις μετάδοσης, αριθμό χρηστών και ρυθμό μετάδοσης), ενώ ταυτόχρονα μπορεί και εκπληρώνει τις απαιτήσεις χαμηλού κόστους στην ανάπτυξη των μελλοντικών δικτύων πρόσβασης νέας γενιάς. / Nowadays, the rapid increase in bandwidth demanding services imposes new technological directions in the design of next generation optical networks with the purpose to achieve: a) reduced cost, b) larger transmission distances, c) larger number of users and d) higher bandwidth connectivity to the end user. However, due to the analogue nature of the optical signals, the optical networks suffer from a variety of linear and non-linear impairments. These impairments have a direct impact in the signal’s bit error rate performance, while their effect increases as bit rate increases. The compensation of impairments has been traditionally performed by optical means. However, the rapid increase in available electronic processing power has made electronic mitigation of impairments a viable option, leading to an adaptive, low cost and integrated solution which avoids additional optical losses. The goal of this thesis is to study the effective mitigation by electronic means of the most important impairments (i.e. chromatic dispersion, self phase modulation and filter concatenation) that are related with optical networks and particularly metropolitan, access and passive optical networks. From the network (and system) design point of view, this study proposes the optimum use of certain low cost solutions able to extend (in bit rate and coverage) the applicability of next generation optical networks. More specifically, the effectiveness of electronic equalization is examined for systems utilizing low cost, conventional directly modulated laser (DML) sources that are operated at 10 Gb/s. The purpose in this case is to extend the reach and operating data rate of these systems by mitigating the transmission limiting effects due to the source characteristics and the link impairments (dispersion, self-phase modulation, and filter concatenation) with the optimum use of electronic equalization. Moreover, with respect to next generation optical access networks an effective and useful design approach on PON systems is fully investigated, by using the benefits of electronic equalization at the receiver side (ΟLT). This experimental system studies are focusing on PON systems operated at 10 Gb/s by using low cost and low bandwidth RSOAs at the ONU side assisted by electronic equalization at the receiver (ΟLT). This technique offers the required flexibility for the optimum adaptation on the specific network characteristics (in terms of covered distance, number of users and bit rate) and additionally meets the requirements for the development and further extension of future low cost optical access networks.

A crescente demanda de tráfego em redes de acesso pressiona a melhor utilização das redes backbone, que são utilizadas para transporte de grandes taxas de dados em diversos domínios (Sistemas Autônomos, SAs). Com o aumento destas redes, aumenta-se a complexidade de topologia das interligações entre domínios. Desta maneira, roteamento de tráfego e pontos de interconexão de SAs (nós de borda) são questões importantes para o desempenho destas redes, que são operadas por diversos provedores que podem utilizar protocolos de comunicação distintos. Neste sentido, o roteamento interdomínio apresenta desafios como a publicação ou não de informações de parâmetros de rede de SAs e como tratar esta questão de maneira globalizada, com novos protocolos e suas especificações. Em termos de pontos de interconexão de SAs, a especificação dos locais onde enlaces inter-redes são conectados aos domínios são importantes para seu desempenho, já que são responsáveis por toda troca de tráfego entre redes distintas. O trabalho considera redes ópticas opacas e translúcidas em cenário multidomínio com bandas multigranulares. Neste cenário é estudado um algoritmo de roteamento multidomínio. No trabalho também é feito um planejamento, especificando em quais nós serão conectados enlaces interdomínio. A principal contribuição deste trabalho é o estudo de planejamento de enlaces interdomínio, com a proposta de um método para escolha de nós de borda (sistematização), com objetivo de diminuir a probabilidade de bloqueio interdomínio. A sistematização é baseada em estudos de resultados de algoritmo genético desenvolvido para o mesmo propósito e sua utilização diminui em até 42% o bloqueio interdomínio. Um algoritmo de alocação de banda também foi desenvolvido para redes multidomínio, que considera parâmetros da camada de rede e óptica para o cálculo de peso de enlaces para encontrar caminhos ópticos entre nós fonte e destino. Os resultados mostram diminuição de até 35% no bloqueio interdomínio com a modificação feita em algoritmo proposto na literatura. / The huge demand for traffic in last mile networks push the better utilization of backbone networks, which are used to transport large data rates in several domains (Autonomous Systems, ASs). With this growth, the topology complexity of interdomain links increases. Then, traffic routing and interconnection points of ASs (border nodes) are relevant questions for the performance of these networks, which are managed by several providers that can use distinct communications protocols. Thus, the interdomain routing presents challenges such as the decision on publishing or not the network´s parameters from ASs and how to deal with this issue in a global way, with new protocols and its specifications. For interconnection points between ASs, the points where interdomain links are connected are important for their performances, since they are responsible for all traffic exchange between distinct networks. This work considers opaque and translucent optical networks in a multidomain scenario with multigranular data rates. In this scenario a multidomain routing algorithm is studied and a network planning is developed, specifying the nodes where interdomain links are connected. The main contribution of this work is the planning of interdomain links, with the proposal of a method for border nodes selection (systematization), with the objective of decreasing the interdomain blocking probability. The systematization is based on the results from a genetic algorithm developed for the same purpose and its utilization decrease up to 42% of the interdomain blocking. A bandwidth allocation algorithm was also created for multidomain scenarios, that considers parameters from network and optical layer for the link weight calculation in order to find optimal paths. The results show a decreasing of up to 35% for interdomain blocking with a contribution based on literature\'s work.

The main goal of this diploma thesis is to design of high-speed optical network. The first part deals with theoretical knowledge in the field of optical transmissions, especially principle of wavelength division multiplexing. Generally speaking, this part is dedicated to optical connections over long distances. It will concentrate on different types of wavelength division multiplexing, optical fiber amplifiers and other basic optical components. Then it discusses influence of negative effects acting on optical transmission and discusses how to reduce or suppress their influence. Subsequently, there is designed backbone network in the Czech Republic in OptiSystem 7.0 software and are verified some mentioned theoretical knowledge. One of chapters also presents results of measurements of real optical routes in our state. The second part of the diploma thesis moves its attention on that part of optical network, which provides data connectivity to end users, that means it is focused on optical access network. There are described the most common topologies, standards and components. Based on these findings, in the last chapter, there is worked out design of optical access network FTTH (more precisely FTTD) in the selected location. Afterwards, the design is transferred to the OptiSystem 7.0 software, where is verified its functionality.