• DocumentCode
    2166150
  • Title

    Field trial of a 1.5 Tb/s adaptive and gridless OXC supporting elastic 1000-fold bandwidth granularity

  • Author

    Amaya, N. ; Zervas, G.S. ; Rofoee, B. Rahimzadeh ; Irfan, M. ; Qin, Y. ; Simeonidou, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    An adaptive gridless OXC is demonstrated using field fiber. The OXC adapts its architecture on demand to switch variable type signals in frequency, time and space domain with 1000-fold bandwidth granularity and 1.5 Tb/s throughput.
  • Keywords
    optical communication; optical switches; adaptive gridless OXC; bit rate 1.5 Tbit/s; elastic 1000-fold bandwidth granularity; field fiber; optical communications; Bandwidth; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical signal processing; Optical switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6066222