Question 480
Operations wants to avoid recurrence of this design flaw: During a predeployment review for a global retail WAN, the team discovers this design gap: a carrier needs many high-capacity optical channels across a long-haul fiber span. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
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Correct Answer
Review optical budgets, amplification and protection paths with transport engineers. Apply the same control to the global retail WAN rollout checklist. This control targets the underlying design risk. DWDM multiplexes distinct optical wavelengths onto one fiber pair to increase transport capacity. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Optical power, wavelength plans and end-to-end error rates meet the physical service design. The global retail WAN acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
Metro Ethernet can present an Ethernet service to customer edges without requiring a private optical system. The repeat risk here is different: DWDM multiplexes distinct optical wavelengths onto one fiber pair to increase transport capacity. A directly relevant preventive control is: Review optical budgets, amplification and protection paths with transport engineers. Apply the same control to the global retail WAN rollout checklist.
A carrier MPLS L3VPN separates customer routing via provider VRFs and distributes eligible customer prefixes. The repeat risk here is different: DWDM multiplexes distinct optical wavelengths onto one fiber pair to increase transport capacity. A directly relevant preventive control is: Review optical budgets, amplification and protection paths with transport engineers. Apply the same control to the global retail WAN rollout checklist.
A Layer 2 VPN transports customer Layer 2 frames without making the carrier manage customer Layer 3 routes. The repeat risk here is different: DWDM multiplexes distinct optical wavelengths onto one fiber pair to increase transport capacity. A directly relevant preventive control is: Review optical budgets, amplification and protection paths with transport engineers. Apply the same control to the global retail WAN rollout checklist.