Thanks for the explanation, I always thought 'waves' were 'alien waves' I guess, I thought you had to coordinate the channel and you used wdm optics, I didn't realize they normally are provisioned with ethernet to a OTN then get channelized, good info. On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:36 AM Tony Wicks <tony@wicks.co.nz> wrote:
An Alien wave comes in from an external source, for an example a customer has WDM optics in their kit. A normal wave the “customer” connects with a normal 10GE/100GE (or whatever is appropriate) and a line card on the OTN platform “grooms” that to the appropriate WDM channel.
*From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co.nz@nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *TJ Trout *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 October 2020 6:22 am *To:* James Jun <james.jun@towardex.com> *Cc:* nanog <nanog@nanog.org> *Subject:* Re: Passive Wave Primer
What is the difference between a normal wave and a alien wave?