Field trial of a 40 Gbit/s PSBT channel upgrade to an installed 1700 km 10 Gbit/s system

Author

Birk, M. ; Skolnick, C. ; Schmidt, T.J. ; Saunders, R.

Author_Institution

Opt. Syst. Res., AT&T Labs, Middletown, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

6-11 March 2005

Abstract

This paper presents the results of three practical experiments proving the viability of 40 Gbit/s phase-shaped binary transmission (PSBT) channel upgrade to existing 10G systems supporting 50 GHz channel spacing: (a) lab experiments with a fully loaded 1000 km 80-channel 10 Gbit/s system upgraded with two 40 Gbit/s PSBT channels, (b) an 850 km field trial of 40 Gbit/s PSBT channel upgrade to an installed 10 Gbit/s system and installed fiber, (c) an extension of the 850 km field trial to 1700 km via optical loop back. The 10 Gbit/s system was left as originally provisioned and all link control loops were active during the trials. Error free performance after FEC was achieved for all three experimental configurations, proving flexible and seamless 40 Gbit/s PSBT channel upgrade to existing 10 Gbit/s systems is possible and practical.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 40 Gbit/s; 50 GHz; 850 to 1700 km; FEC; channel spacing; error free performance; link control loops; multihaul DWDM; optical loop back; phase-shaped binary transmission channel upgrade; Channel spacing; Communication system control; Control systems; Internet; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical signal processing; Power capacitors; System testing; Transponders; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC

Print_ISBN

1-55752-783-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2005.192638

Filename

1498297