Optical Technology Options for Programmable S-BVT

Optical technology options for programmable sliceable bandwidth/bitrate variable transceivers (S-BVT) are presented, reviewing our proposals based on adaptive multicarrier modulation. Special attention will be devoted to data plane solutions with high degree of (re)configurability and flexibility for the optical metro network segment. We propose transceiver architectures based on modular design in order to target grow-as-needed approach and optical domain disaggregation, identifying data plane elements that can be considered as separate management and functional entities, as well as functionalities that can be moved to software.Our work in this direction is presented, focusing on the S-BVT features and capabilities, taken into account the optical system and its interrelationship with other elements of the network.Grant numbers : This work has been supported by the Spanish DESTELLO project (TEC2015-69256-R).© 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works