Performance and capacity testing of medium and large managed plane and control plane optical networks

© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. Element and network management system is used worldwide for remotely managing the network elements. With EMS/NMS, we can provision circuits, reboot network elements, provision protection rings, and provision in-band communication remotely. Due to its wide utility, performance and scalability testing of medium and large optical networks needs to be done extensively. This paper covers how performance and scalability testing of medium and large optical networks is done in both control and managed plane scenarios. Test bench has more than five thousand network elements and more than three lakhs paths. Time to retrieve nodes, optical connections, and alarms will be measured in medium and large network scenarios. Nodes are added into network management system which is mentioned in the above setup.