Optical interconnection of core and metro networks


Autoria(s): Ellis, Andrew D.; Cotter, David; Ibrahim, Selwan K.; Weerasuriya, Ruwan; Chow, C.W.; Leuthold, Juerg; Freude, Wolfgang; Sygletos, Stylianos; Vorreau, Philipp; Bonk, R.; Hillerkuss, David; Tomkos, Ioannis; Tzanakaki, A.; Kouloumentas, C.; Richardson, David J.; Petropoulos, Periklis; Parmigiani, Francesca; Zarris, George; Simeonidou, Dimitra
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01/11/2008

Resumo

A 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 an optical router that allows bufferless aggregation of metro network traffic into higher-capacity data streams for core network transmission. A key functionality of the router is WDM to time-division multiplexing (TDM) transmultiplexing.

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http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/18053/1/Optical_interconnection_of_core.pdf

Ellis, Andrew D.; Cotter, David; Ibrahim, Selwan K.; Weerasuriya, Ruwan; Chow, C.W.; Leuthold, Juerg; Freude, Wolfgang; Sygletos, Stylianos; Vorreau, Philipp; Bonk, R.; Hillerkuss, David; Tomkos, Ioannis; Tzanakaki, A.; Kouloumentas, C.; Richardson, David J.; Petropoulos, Periklis; Parmigiani, Francesca; Zarris, George and Simeonidou, Dimitra (2008). Optical interconnection of core and metro networks. Journal of Optical Networking, 7 (11), pp. 928-935.

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http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/18053/

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