DocumentCode
600529
Title
How much can colorless, directionless and contentionless (CDC) of ROADM help dynamic lightpath provisioning?
Author
Gangxiang Shen ; Yongcheng Li ; Limei Peng
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China
fYear
2012
fDate
4-8 March 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We evaluate the impact of the colorless, directionless, and contentionless features of ROADM on dynamic lightpath service provisioning. It is found that colorless plays the most significant role in improving lightpath blocking performance.
Keywords
multiplexing equipment; optical fibre networks; CDC feature; ROADM; colorless-directionless-contentionless feature; dynamic lightpath service provisioning; lightpath blocking performance; optical transport network; reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Color; Couplers; Ports (Computers); Routing; Wavelength assignment;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location
Los Angeles, CA
ISSN
pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0262-3
Type
conf
Filename
6476352
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