An all-optical grooming switch to interconnect access and metro ring networks

Author

Leuthold, J. ; Freude, W. ; Sygletos, S. ; Vorreau, P. ; Bonk, R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Tomkos, I. ; Tzanakaki, A. ; Kouloumentas, C. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Ellis, A. ; Cotter, D. ; Ibrahim, S. ; Weerasuriya, R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of High-Freq. & Quantum Electron., Univ. of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

210

Abstract

A novel switch concept is introduced that offers transparent optical grooming of 10 and 40 Gb/s traffic in an access network onto a metro core ring network operated at 130 Gb/s traffic. Key functionalities of the router are the traffic aggregation with time-slot interchanging (TSI) functionality, the TDM to WDM demultiplexing of the high-speed channel into lower bit-rate tributaries as well as multi-wavelength all-optical 2R regeneration of several highest-speed signals.

Keywords

demultiplexing; optical switches; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; TDM; WDM; access network; all-optical grooming switch; demultiplexing; metro ring networks; time-slot interchanging functionality; Costs; High speed optical techniques; Integrated circuit interconnections; Microswitches; Optical fiber networks; Optical network units; Optical switches; Repeaters; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598691

Filename

4598691