Title :
Demonstration of real-time ethernet to reconfigurable superchannel data transport over elastic optical network
Author :
Yan, Shuo ; Yan, Y. ; Rofoee, B.R. ; Shu, Y. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Zervas, Georgios ; Simeonidou, Dimitra
Author_Institution :
High-Performance Networks Group, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Abstract :
A real-time Ethernet to reconfigurable superchannel data converter is demonstrated in a flexigrid EON network. Ethernet packets are aggregated and groomed by an FPGA-based optoelectronics to a reconfigurable superchannel signal with variable capacity from 160 Gbit/s to 2.56 Tbit/s.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; optical fibre LAN; optoelectronic devices; real-time systems; FPGA-based optoelectronics; bit rate 160 Gbit/s to 2.56 Tbit/s; data converter; elastic optical network; flexigrid EON network; real-time Ethernet; reconfigurable superchannel data transport; superchannel signal;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964121
