• DocumentCode
    449122
  • Title

    Long haul field transmission experiment of 8×170 Gbit/s over 421 km installed legacy SSMF fiber infrastructure

  • Author

    Vorbeck, S. ; Schmidt, M. ; Leppla, R. ; Weiershausen, W. ; Schneiders, M. ; Lach, E.

  • Author_Institution
    T-Systems Int. GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    433
  • Abstract
    We present a 8×170 Gbit/s DWDM/OTDM (1.28 Tbit/s) field transmission experiment over 421 km in commercially operated network of Deutsche Telekom. Stable transmission performance was achieved for all channels with BER ≤ 2.8*10-4 using adaptive PMD compensation.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; telecommunication channels; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.28 Tbit/s; 1360 Gbit/s; 170 Gbit/s; 421 km; BER; DWDM; OTDM; SSMF; adaptive PMD compensation; commercially operated network; fiber infrastructure; long haul field transmission; optical channels; stable transmission performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576318