Design and Simulation of an Optical Gigabit Ethernet Network

AbstractThis paper deals with the design and simulation of an optical gigabit Ethernet using OPTSIM 3.6 packet software. The main aim of the proposed design is to build a MAN optical network using one-gigabit Ethernet technique, and what are the necessary requirements to build these networks. As a case study, all states center are connected as Star Bus topology using layer2 and layer3 optical switches. In addition, in this paper one-gigabit optical transmitter and receiver are designed to work as a node in the network topology. Further more, the benefits of using L- Band wavelength for transmission take in consider the linear and non-linear effects on fiber optic is presented.