Title :
Performance evaluation of large-scale OXCs that employ multi-stage hetero-granular optical path switching
Author :
Hai-Chau Le ; Hasegawa, Hiroshi ; Sato, Ken-ichi
Author_Institution :
Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan
Abstract :
We evaluate the performance of large-scale two-stage-routing OXC architectures that can be based on small-degree WSSs and simple optical devices, 1xn switches or WBSSs. They are shown to reduce necessary hardware scale substantially at the cost of few additional fibers.
Keywords :
optical fibre communication; telecommunication network routing; 1xn switches; WBSS; hardware scale substantially; large-scale OXC; large-scale two-stage-routing OXC architectures; multistage hetero-granular optical path switching; optical devices; small-degree WSS;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1548
