TY - GEN
T1 - Enabling transparent technologies for the development of highly granular flexible optical cross-connects
AU - Klonidis, D.
AU - Sygletos, S.
AU - Marom, D. M.
AU - Fabbri, S.
AU - Ellis, A.
AU - Pincemin, E.
AU - Betoule, C.
AU - Thouenon, G.
AU - Hillerkuss, D.
AU - Baeuerle, B.
AU - Josten, A.
AU - Leuthold, J.
AU - Zhao, J.
AU - Ben-Ezra, S.
AU - Ferran, J. F.
AU - Angelou, M.
AU - Papastergiou, G.
AU - Zakynthinos, P.
AU - Tomkos, I.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Flexible optical networking is identified today as the solution that offers smooth system upgradability towards Tb/s capacities and optimized use of network resources. However, in order to fully exploit the potentials of flexible spectrum allocation and networking, the development of a flexible switching node is required capable to adaptively add, drop and switch tributaries with variable bandwidth characteristics from/to ultra-high capacity wavelength channels at the lowest switching granularity. This paper presents the main concept and technology solutions envisioned by the EU funded project FOX-C, which targets the design, development and evaluation of the first functional system prototype of flexible add-drop and switching cross-connects. The key developments enable ultra-fine switching granularity at the optical subcarrier level, providing end-to-end routing of any tributary channel with flexible bandwidth down to 10Gb/s (or even lower) carried over wavelength superchannels, each with an aggregated capacity beyond 1Tb/s.
AB - Flexible optical networking is identified today as the solution that offers smooth system upgradability towards Tb/s capacities and optimized use of network resources. However, in order to fully exploit the potentials of flexible spectrum allocation and networking, the development of a flexible switching node is required capable to adaptively add, drop and switch tributaries with variable bandwidth characteristics from/to ultra-high capacity wavelength channels at the lowest switching granularity. This paper presents the main concept and technology solutions envisioned by the EU funded project FOX-C, which targets the design, development and evaluation of the first functional system prototype of flexible add-drop and switching cross-connects. The key developments enable ultra-fine switching granularity at the optical subcarrier level, providing end-to-end routing of any tributary channel with flexible bandwidth down to 10Gb/s (or even lower) carried over wavelength superchannels, each with an aggregated capacity beyond 1Tb/s.
KW - all-optical interferometric add drop
KW - flexible optical networks
KW - super-channel switching
KW - wavelength selective switch
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84906748644
U2 - 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876599
DO - 10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876599
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AN - SCOPUS:84906748644
SN - 9781479956005
T3 - International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
BT - ICTON 2014 - 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2014
Y2 - 6 July 2014 through 10 July 2014
ER -