Abstract: “With the increasing growth and demand for capacity in national, regional, and even metropolitan optical networks, we are increasing the bandwidth of the channel so that more data can be sent in appropriate time duration. So transmission delay is the main problem to send a large amount of data. To overcome this problem data should be routed to the minimum possible route for this there are various routing protocols which can be used to route the data in optical networks. In this paper I am using two routing protocol to send the data and analyzing the performance parameters such as end to end transmission delay and throughput of the network.”

Keywords: Routing Information Protocol, Open Shortest Path First, SONET, Compression.