Title :
Falling Boundaries from Metro to ULH Optical Transport Equipment
Author :
Chbat, Michel W. ; Schmidtke, Hans-Juergen
Author_Institution :
Siemens Networks, Dallas
Abstract :
With increased price pressure and expanding requirements, metro, regional, and LH/ULH transport equipment are rapidly collapsing toward universal platforms. Enabling technologies and impact of this convergence on optical network architecture and design will be reviewed.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; LH-ULH transport equipment; optical network architecture; optical transport equipment; Availability; Bandwidth; Costs; Ethernet networks; IPTV; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Scalability; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348516
