• DocumentCode
    1940801
  • Title

    Evolution of traffic grooming from SDH/SONET to flexible grid

  • Author

    Shuqiang Zhang ; Tornatore, Massimo ; Gangxiang Shen ; Mukherjee, Biswanath

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    22-26 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We review the evolution of traffic grooming from SDH/SONET to evolutionary flexible-grid and elastic-rate technologies and summarize the relevant issues. Sliceable optical transponder is identified as a novel technology that could potentially impact the future grooming paradigm.
  • Keywords
    SONET; optical communication equipment; transponders; SDH-SONET; elastic-rate technology; evolutionary flexible-grid; optical transponder; traffic grooming evolution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-84919-759-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp.2013.1398
  • Filename
    6647591