Title :
Dispersion-managed fiber (DMF): experimental & economic evaluation
Author :
Gunkel, Matthias ; Breuer, Dirk
Author_Institution :
Deutsche Telekom T-Syst., Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
We report an experimental comparison of 40 Gbit/s transmission over DMF and G.652 fibers and find a 30% reach advantage for DMF. Cost modelling for a generic German backbone network quantifies DMF economic advantage.
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre networks; optical fibre testing; 40 Gbit/s; DMF economic advantage; G.652 fibers; Gbit/s transmission; cost modelling; dispersion-managed fiber; generic German backbone network;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
