Talk:Optical transport network

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Combine prose and table?

The prose and table descriptions are both redundant and might seem inconsistent. Might work better with just an explaination about how the data rates are lower than line rates due to various overheads, and then adding both to the table, although with all those digits it might be unwieldy. Perhaps saying "approximate" and rouding off to three or so significant digits would be less confusing. Someone who cares about exact details should be consutling the standards anyway, we just want to paraphrase and summarize. W Nowicki (talk) 21:31, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What's the point of OTN?

The lead paragraph is a mess -- a bunch of jargon that doesn't actually say what OTN is or why anyone would care about it.

I found it via a link from 100 Gigabit Ethernet, which also didn't explain the point of OTN but somehow mentioned that it's somehow compatible with it.

What does OTN do that Ethernet doesn't already do? Or is this another Telco standard designed to make equipment expensive and incompatible with everything else? If so, we should say so. Gnuish (talk) 23:07, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merging with G.709

In 2013, it was proposed to merge the two articles because G.709 is the backbone of OTN and the information on these pages is essentially redundant. This idea was eventually scrapped in 2016 after no action was taken, but I think it should ultimately be merged. Metropolismilk (talk) 21:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright check required

Jo-Jo Eumerus removed from the public archives some versions of the user sandbox User:Metropolismilk/sandbox/Optical transport network, following tagging by user:CAPTAIN RAJU as potential WP:COPYVIO of https://www.networxsecurity.org/members-area/glossary/o/optical-transport-network.html and http://kuliahkaryawan.widyakartika.ac.id/IT/en/3077-2963/Optical-Transport-Network_12580_kuliahkaryawan-widyakartika.html.

However, that user page appears to have been a copy of this live article, as stated at User talk:Metropolismilk. Please would one of you check again? – Fayenatic London 22:38, 27 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I screwed up on that one. At the bottom of each page it says in one way or another, "copied from Wikipedia". I've reverted the deletion and put attribution in the history. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:08, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]