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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
