Design Tools for OFC Systems and Network Planning

Speaker: Rajappa Papannareddy

Abstract

During the last few decades, optical fiber technologies have evolved from a few Mb/sto100 Gb/s data links& networks. The design tools have played an important role towards the design and development of OFC systems and networks. First, this talk presents an overview of OFC systems and networks and then discusses the newly developed design tools: OFC-Systems Soft &WDM-NetSoft for systems engineering and network planning. Additionally, the performances of these design tools are reviewed with examples.

Bio

Rajappa Papannareddy received his Ph.D. Degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University in1987, MSEE from the University of Maryland in 1983, and B.E (Electronics) from Bangalore University in 1975.He has published several journal andpresented many papersat several IEEE & ASEE conferences during his tenure at Purdue UniversityNorth Central, U.S.A. In addition, he has published two textbooks in the area of optical fiber communicationsystems. He is now a retired Professor of Electrical Engineering ofPurdue University.His past work experience includes a Senior Engineer position at ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore, Staff Engineer at ARRISin U.S.A.and a Principal Engineer at CIENA in U.S.A.Currently, he offers optical network training courses to the academia and industry.