Title :
Experimental broadband drop/insert/cross-connect system: 1.8 Gbit/s optical shuttle bus
Author :
Fujimoto, N. ; Ishihara, T. ; Taniguchi, A. ; Yamashita, H. ; Yamaguchi, K.
Author_Institution :
Fujitsu Lab. Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
fDate :
28 Nov-1 Dec 1988
Abstract :
An optical shuttle bus architecture to realize a flexible synchronous interoffice and subscriber-loop network is proposed. An experimental broadband drop/insert/crossconnect system with SONET interfaces, called the 1.8-Gb/s optical shuttle bus, is then described. The bus is constructed of multigigabit intelligent optical shuttle nodes (OSNs). The software-defined OSN can be configured as any synchronous transmission network topology and provides flexible channel allocation by means of the drop/insert/crossconnect function. The OSN can also be configured as a highly reliable network by using self-healing functions, such as line switch, bypass, and loop back. Laboratory testing of an experimental system, consisting of three OSNs with one 10-km and two 5-km single-mode fibers in a ring configuration, has confirmed the practicality of the proposed architecture
Keywords :
ISDN; broadband networks; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; optical links; subscriber loops; 1.8 Gbit/s; B-ISDN; SONET interfaces; bypass; channel allocation; experimental broadband drop/insert/crossconnect system; interoffice network; line switch; loop back; multigigabit intelligent optical shuttle nodes; optical shuttle bus; optical shuttle bus architecture; subscriber-loop network; synchronous optical network; synchronous transmission network topology; B-ISDN; Channel allocation; Computer architecture; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Optical network units; Optical switches; SONET; Subscriber loops;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1988, and Exhibition. 'Communications for the Information Age.' Conference Record, GLOBECOM '88., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Hollywood, FL
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1988.25978
