TY - JOUR
T1 - Flexible optical cross-connects for high bit rate elastic photonic transport networks [invited]
AU - Song, M.
AU - Pincemin, E.
AU - Josten, A.
AU - Baeuerle, B.
AU - Hillerkuss, D.
AU - Leuthold, J.
AU - Rudnick, R.
AU - Marom, D. M.
AU - Ezra, S. Ben
AU - Ferran, J. F.
AU - Thouenon, G.
AU - Khodashenas, P. S.
AU - Rivas-Moscoso, J. M.
AU - Betoule, C.
AU - Klonidis, D.
AU - Tomkos, I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Optical Society of America.
PY - 2016/7
Y1 - 2016/7
N2 - We present here the work performed in the EU-funded flexible optical cross-connect (FOX-C) project, which investigates and develops new flexible optical switching solutions with ultra-fine spectral granularity. Thanks to high spectral resolution filtering elements, the sub-channel content can be dropped from or added to a super-channel, offering high flexibility to optical transport networks through the fine adaptability of the network resources to the traffic demands. For the first time, the FOX-C solutions developed in the project are investigated here and evaluated experimentally. Their efficiency is demonstrated over two high spectral efficiency modulation schemes, namely multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) and Nyquist WDM (N-WDM) formats. Finally, in order to demonstrate the relevance of the FOX-C node concepts, a networking study comparing the economic advantages of the FOX-C optical aggregation solution versus the electronic one is performed.
AB - We present here the work performed in the EU-funded flexible optical cross-connect (FOX-C) project, which investigates and develops new flexible optical switching solutions with ultra-fine spectral granularity. Thanks to high spectral resolution filtering elements, the sub-channel content can be dropped from or added to a super-channel, offering high flexibility to optical transport networks through the fine adaptability of the network resources to the traffic demands. For the first time, the FOX-C solutions developed in the project are investigated here and evaluated experimentally. Their efficiency is demonstrated over two high spectral efficiency modulation schemes, namely multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) and Nyquist WDM (N-WDM) formats. Finally, in order to demonstrate the relevance of the FOX-C node concepts, a networking study comparing the economic advantages of the FOX-C optical aggregation solution versus the electronic one is performed.
KW - Elastic optical networking
KW - Flexible optical cross-connect
KW - MB-OFDM
KW - N-WDM
KW - Optical versus electronic aggregation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84978933822
U2 - 10.1364/JOCN.8.00A126
DO - 10.1364/JOCN.8.00A126
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AN - SCOPUS:84978933822
SN - 1943-0620
VL - 8
SP - A126-A140
JO - Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
JF - Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
IS - 7
ER -