Flexible optical infrastructure for Ethernet transport: Solutions and enabling technologies in the ICT STRAUSS project

Author

Svaluto Moreolo, M. ; Fabrega, J.M. ; Nishihara, Masato ; Tanaka, T. ; Takahara, Tomoo ; Rasmussen, Jens C. ; Yan, Shuo ; Rofoee, B.R. ; Yan, Y. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Shu, Y. ; Zervas, Georgios ; Simeonidou, Dimitra ; Fernandez del Rosal, L. ; Schlosser, M

Author_Institution

Opt. Networks & Syst. Dept., CTTC, Castelldefels, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Cloud applications and the global delivery of Ethernet services require a scalable, reliable, virtualizable and cost/energy efficient optical transport infrastructure able to support data rates beyond 100 Gb/s. The ICT STRAUSS project addresses the requirement of future optical infrastructures for Ethernet transport beyond 100 Gb/s, by combining two network switching technologies, namely Optical Packet Switching (OPS) and flexible Optical Circuit Switching (OCS). In this paper, cost/energy-efficient solutions and technology enablers are presented, specifically dealing with data plane aspects, such as the design and development of sliceable bandwidth variable transponders (S-BVT), fixed-length variable-capacity OPS, flexi-grid optical switching nodes and OPS/OCS integrated interface.

Keywords

local area networks; optical fibre networks; optical switches; Ethernet services; Ethernet transport; ICT STRAUSS project; OPS-OCS integrated interface; S-BVT; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; fixed-length variable-capacity OPS; flexigrid optical switching nodes; network switching technologies; optical packet switching; optical transport infrastructure; sliceable bandwidth variable transponders; Integrated optics; Modulation; OFDM; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; DMT; Ethernet; Flexi-grid; OCS; OFDM; OPS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882649

Filename

6882649