Optical interconnection of core and metro networks
- Ellis, A.D.
- Cotter, D.
- Ibrahim, S.
- Weerasuriya, R.
- Chow, C.W.
- Leuthold, J.
- Freude, W.
- Sygletos, S.
- Vorreau, P.
- Bonk, R.
- Hillerkuss, D.
- Tomkos, I.
- Tzanakaki, A.
- Kouloumentas, C.
- Richardson, D.J.
- Petropoulos, P.
- Parmigiani, F.
- Zarris, G.
- Simeonidou, D.
DOIAbstract
A new network concept is introduced that exploits transparent optical grooming of traffic between an access network and a metro core ring network. This network is enabled by a novel optical router which allows buffer-less aggregation of metro network traffic into higher capacity data streams for core network transmission. A key functionality of the router is WDM to TDM trans-multiplexing
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