Impact of intermediate traffic grouping on the dimensioning of multi-granularity optical networks

We demonstrate the interest of multi-granularity optical networks to decrease the number of ports for the optical switching matrices by grouping some wavelengths into bands and some bands into fibers at some intermediate nodes.

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Main Authors: Noirie, L., Vigoureux, M., Dotaro, E.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Costs
Laboratories
Optical fiber networks
Spine
Telecommunication switching
Telecommunication traffic
Wavelength conversion
Wavelength division multiplexing
Wavelength routing
WDM networks
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Summary:We demonstrate the interest of multi-granularity optical networks to decrease the number of ports for the optical switching matrices by grouping some wavelengths into bands and some bands into fibers at some intermediate nodes.
DOI:10.1109/OFC.2001.927315