Field trial of WDM-OTDM transmultiplexing employing photonic switch fabric-based buffer-less bit-interleaved data grooming and all-optical regeneration

Author

Zarris, George ; Parmigiani, F. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Weerasuriya, R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Gonzalez, Norberto Amaya ; Spyropoulou, M. ; Vorreau, P. ; Morais, R. ; Ibrahim, Selwan K. ; Klonidis, Dimitrios ; Petropoulos, P. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Monteiro, Pedro ; Tz

Author_Institution

Photonic Networks Lab., Univ. of Essex, Colchester

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report, for the first time, a field trial of a novel 42.7 Gbps/128.1 Gbps WDM/OTDM grooming node, and confirm node interoperability and the data integrity of asynchronous retiming.

Keywords

open systems; optical repeaters; photonic switching systems; transmultiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM-OTDM transmultiplexing; all-optical regeneration; asynchronous retiming; bufferless bit-interleaved data grooming; data integrity; interoperability; photonic switch fabric; Energy consumption; Micromechanical devices; Optical buffering; Optical network units; Optical switches; Photonics Society; Repeaters; Space technology; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.1155) All-optical networks; (060.4230) Multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5033014