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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
