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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
