Why Use Optical Network Planning
Streamline optical link design with intelligent configuration, visualization, and automated engineering workflows.
Designing modern optical networks requires balancing performance, cost, scalability, and deployment speed. This solution simplifies the entire network engineering process by combining automated equipment configuration, physical-layer performance analysis, and intuitive network visualization within a single environment. Engineers can rapidly evaluate network topologies, validate design rules, analyze impairments such as OSNR, dispersion, and nonlinear effects, and optimize equipment selections without extensive manual calculations. Advanced automation and scripting capabilities enable integration with existing planning tools, databases, and reporting systems, helping organizations standardize engineering methodologies across teams. Whether responding to customer proposals, planning network expansions, or validating new architectures, users can accelerate design cycles, improve consistency, reduce deployment risk, and deliver cost-effective, high-performance optical networks with confidence.
Key Capabilities
Automatically configure optical network equipment and parameters.
Display power, OSNR, dispersion, and impairment metrics.
Create and analyze complex network architectures.
Integrate workflows through scripting and open APIs.
Verify compliance with physical-layer engineering requirements.
Balance performance objectives against equipment investments.
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This brochure presents VPIlinkConfigurator, an optical network engineering platform that combines equipment libraries and expert design rules to configure and evaluate WDM networks. It supports automated component placement, wavelength allocation, and performance analysis across linear, branched, hub, and ring topologies, including ROADM configurations. Engineers can compare designs by cost and performance, assess upgrade scenarios, and generate bills of materials and configuration reports. Customization tools and third-party interfaces support consistent workflows for equipment vendors and service providers.
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The software automates optical network design, equipment configuration, and performance analysis, helping engineers develop optimized network architectures while ensuring compliance with physical-layer requirements.
Users can model a wide range of network architectures, including linear links, ring networks, mesh networks, hubbed rings, and branched network configurations.
The platform provides visibility into critical optical performance parameters, including optical power, OSNR, dispersion, and nonlinear impairments such as XPM, SPM, and FWM.
Yes. Open APIs and scripting capabilities enable integration with databases, office applications, custom software tools, reporting systems, and network planning workflows.
By automating design tasks, standardizing methodologies, accelerating proposal generation, and reducing manual calculations, engineers can complete projects faster and with greater consistency.