Key components and technologies for optical networks of the future

Author

Kavitha, M. ; Nair, Prita ; Raina, J.P. ; Pushpa, P.V. ; Maskara, S.L.

Author_Institution

Adv. Training Inst. for Inf. Technol., Chennai, India

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

1158

Abstract

Explosive growth of Internet traffic and the convergence of telecommunication, Internet and broadcast networks and services are causing huge demand on bandwidth. DWDM networks are the only solution, which can cater to this ever-increasing bandwidth demand This paper presents developments and advances in some of the key components and technologies which are enabling the DWDM based optical transport network of the future.

Keywords

multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM networks; Internet traffic; bandwidth; broadcast networks; dense wavelength division multiplexing; optical add-drop multiplexers; optical amplifiers; optical cross connect; optical transport network; telecommunication networks; telecommunication services; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE Region 10 Conference on Computers, Communications, Control and Power Engineering

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7490-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2002.1180330

Filename

1180330