Optical Transport Network

Imagine you have a lot of toys and you want to bring them to your friend's house. But carrying all of them at once is very difficult. So you decide to put them in a bag and then carry the bag to your friend's house. This makes it much easier for you to transport all your toys together.

An optical transport network is like a bag that helps to transport a lot of information at once across long distances. But instead of toys, it carries data. Data is like the words, pictures, and videos you see on your computer or phone.

In an optical transport network, data is carried using very thin glass threads called optical fibers. These fibers are as thin as a hair and can transfer data through light signals. This makes it possible to transport a lot of data very quickly across long distances.

The optical transport network has many different parts that help to transmit data from one location to another. It has equipment like routers, switches, amplifiers, and multiplexers. These parts work together to help the data travel from one place to another without any interruption.

So when you watch a video on Youtube, play a game online, or send a message to your friend who lives far away, an optical transport network is working in the background to make sure the data gets to where it needs to go.