Impact on traffic and transmission performance of all-optical wavelength converters placed at the network interface or in OXCNs

Author

Mikkelsen, B. ; Poulsen, H.N. ; Danielsen, S.L. ; Joergensen, C. ; Vaa, M. ; Klock, A. ; Hansen, P.B. ; Stubkjaer, K.E. ; Wünstel, K. ; Dach, K. ; Lach, E. ; Laube, G. ; Idler, W. ; Schilling, M.

Author_Institution

Center for Broadband Telecommun., Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

fYear

1997

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

125

Abstract

In summary, placing optical wavelength convertors (OWCs) in the optical cross connecting nodes (OXCN)s rather than at the fibre network interface not only improves the traffic performance but also enhances the performance of the physical layer, e.g., in terms of relaxed cross talk requirements

Keywords

optical crosstalk; optical fibre networks; optical frequency conversion; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; OXCNs; all-optical wavelength converters; fibre network interface; fibre transmission performance; network interface; optical cross connecting nodes; optical wavelength convertors; physical layer; relaxed cross talk requirements; traffic performance; Failure analysis; Fault tolerance; Network interfaces; Optical fiber networks; Optical wavelength conversion; Telecommunication network topology; Telecommunication traffic; Transponders; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication. OFC 97., Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

1-55752-480-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1997.719750

Filename

719750