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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Fiber-Optic Systems (Blake C25)


        Chapter 25: Fiber-Optic Systems

        TRUE/FALSE

  1.   Most new telephone trunk cables are fiber-optic.

ANS:   T

  2.   Cable TV systems use fiber-optic cable.

ANS:   T

  3.   Many data network cables are fiber-optic.

ANS:   T

  4.   Fiber-optic cable is not practical for telephone trunk cables.

ANS:   F

  5.   CATV uses analog modulation on fiber-optic cables.

ANS:   T

  6.   Usually, splicing losses can be disregarded in loss-budget calculations.

ANS:   F

  7.   The rise time of a transmitter limits its bandwidth.

ANS:   T

  8.   RZ encoding allows twice as much pulse spreading as NRZ.

ANS:   F

  9.   The product of bandwidth times distance describes dispersion in a multimode fiber-optic cable.

ANS:   T

10.   Regenerative repeaters for fiber-optic cables typically convert the light signal to an electrical signal, and then back to light.

ANS:   T

11.   Optical amplifiers are not suitable for digital signals.

ANS:   F

12.   Dispersion effects accumulate when optical amplifiers are used.

ANS:   T

13.   Most fiber-optic systems use TDM.

ANS:   T

14.   Fiber-optic cables shorter than 100 km typically do not require repeaters.

ANS:   T

15.   SONET operates at a base speed of 25 Mbps.

ANS:   F

16.   SONET solves many of the timing problems in synchronizing digital signals.

ANS:   T

17.   SONET is typically used on LANs.

ANS:   F

18.   FDDI can be used on a LAN.

ANS:   T

19.   Soliton pulses can travel down a fiber-optic cable with no dispersion.

ANS:   T

20.   TDR cannot be used on fiber-optic cables.

ANS:   F

        MULTIPLE CHOICE

  1.   FDDI stands for:
a.
Fiber Digital Data Interface
c.
Fiber Distribution Delay Interface
b.
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
d.
Frequency-Division Data Interface


ANS:   B

  2.   FITL stands for:
a.
Fiber In The Loop
c.
Frequency Input to The Loop
b.
Fiber Input Timing Loss
d.
Fiber Input Timing Loop


ANS:   A

  3.   FTTC stands for:
a.
Fiber Transmission Timing Constraint
b.
Fiber Transmission Technology Committee
c.
Fiber Telephone Transmission Cable
d.
Fiber To The Curb


ANS:   D

  4.   SONET stands for:
a.
Simple Optical Network
c.
Synchronous Optical Network
b.
Standard Optical Network
d.
none of the above


ANS:   C

  5.   DWDM stands for:
a.
Digital Wavelength-Division Modulation
b.
Dense Wavelength-Division Modulation
c.
Double Wavelength-Division Modulation
d.
Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing


ANS:   D

  6.   A Soliton is a:
a.
defect in the glass
c.
type of pulse
b.
type of particle
d.
type of optical network


ANS:   C

  7.   Adding bits to synchronize one digital signal to another is called:
a.
bit stuffing
c.
SDH
b.
bit-synch
d.
WDM


ANS:   A

  8.   Power above the minimum required by an optical receiver is called:
a.
gain margin
c.
excess gain
b.
system margin
d.
overdrive


ANS:   B

  9.   Typically, repeaters are not required for fiber-optic cable lengths up to:
a.
1000 miles
c.
100 km
b.
100 miles
d.
10 km


ANS:   C

10.   In SONET, OC-1 stands for:
a.
Optical Carrier level one
c.
Optical Channel one
b.
Optical Coupler unidirectional
d.
Optical Cable type 1


ANS:   A

11.   In SONET, STS stands for:
a.
Synchronous Transport Signal
c.
Synchronous Transmission Signal
b.
Synchronous Transport System
d.
Synchronous Transmission System


ANS:   A

12.   A commonly used fiber-based system for LANs is:
a.
FDDI
c.
gigabit Ethernet
b.
high-speed Ethernet
d.
all of the above


ANS:   D

13.   The use of solitons on fiber-optic cables is:
a.
common
c.
obsolete
b.
experimental
d.
not possible


ANS:   B

14.   OTDR stands for:
a.
Optical Time-Delay Response
c.
Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer
b.
Optical Timing Delay Requirement
d.
Optical Time-Division Relay


ANS:   C

15.   Using fiber-optic cable in a telephone system except for the connection to the subscriber's phone is called:
a.
FDDI
c.
FITL
b.
FTTC
d.
SONET


ANS:   B

        COMPLETION

  1.   FTTC stands for Fiber To The ____________________.

ANS:   Curb                        

  2.   FITL stands for Fiber In The ____________________.

ANS:   Loop                        

  3.   SDH stands for Synchronous Data ____________________.

ANS:   Hierarchy                 

  4.   WDM stands for ____________________-division multiplexing.

ANS:   Wavelength              

  5.   SONET stands for ____________________ Optical Network.

ANS:   Synchronous            

  6.   FDDI stands for Fiber ____________________ Data Interface.

ANS:   Distributed               

  7.   Optical amplifiers use ____________________-doped glass.

ANS:   erbium                     

  8.   Optical amplifiers use a ____________________ laser.

ANS:   pump                       

  9.   Dense ____________________ allows many different wavelengths of light to share a cable.

ANS:   WDM                       

10.   The OC-1 line rate is ____________________ Mbps.

ANS:   51.84                       

11.   SONET does not use bit ____________________ to synchronize two digital signals.

ANS:   stuffing                    

12.   SONET uses a ____________________ to denote the starting position of an information frame.

ANS:   pointer                     

13.   FDDI systems use two ____________________ rings to carry signals.

ANS:   token                       

14.   The two rings of an FDDI system carry data in ____________________ directions.

ANS:   opposite                   

15.   Each ____________________ in an FDDI system acts as a regenerative repeater.

ANS:   node                        

16.   FDDI uses ____________________ mode cables.

ANS:   multi                        

17.   The data rate of an FDDI system is ____________________ bps.

ANS:   100 M                      

18.   SONET frames have considerably more ____________________ than do DS frames for information about signal routing and setup.

ANS:   overhead                  

19.   The number of bytes in a SONET frame is ____________________.

ANS:   810                          

20.   The number of bytes in the payload of a SONET frame is ____________________.

ANS:   774                          

21.   The number of rows in a SONET frame is ____________________.

ANS:   9                              

22.   The total number of overhead bytes in a SONET frame row is ____________________.

ANS:   4                              

23.   The number of path overhead bytes in a SONET frame row is ____________________.

ANS:   1                              

24.   SONET frame rows contain path overhead and ____________________ overhead.

ANS:   transport                  

25.   In SONET, SPE stands for synchronous payload ____________________.

ANS:   envelope                  

        SHORT ANSWER

  1.   What is the bandwidth of a first-order LPF with a rise time of 350 nanoseconds?

ANS:  
1 MHz

  2.   Calculate the total rise time for a fiber-optic system if the transmitter, receiver, and cable each have a rise time of 50 nanoseconds.

ANS:  
86.6 nanoseconds

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