Service delivery enhancements for OnFiber´s wholesale metro bandwidth services enabled by deployment of innovative WDM transport network

Author

Guess, Michael ; Melle, Serge

Author_Institution

OnFiber Commun., USA

fYear

2006

fDate

5-10 March 2006

Abstract

The evaluation, testing and deployment of a new reconfigurable digital add/drop metro DWDM system in OnFiber´s metro core network is described. Through the use of large-scale photonic integrated circuits to perform DWDM multiplexing and OEO conversion at every node, this system supports sub-wavelength digital transport, add/drop, multiplexing and fast protection. Deployment of this new technology enabled OnFiber to consolidate its network architecture by supporting transport, switching and protection of Ethernet, SONET and wavelength services from a common platform, while also shortening service provisioning times, simplifying service planning and engineering, and reducing operational cost and complexity for managing and scaling OnFiber´s metro core DWDM network.

Keywords

SONET; bandwidth allocation; integrated optics; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; wavelength division multiplexing; Ethernet; OnFibers wholesale metro bandwidth services; SONET; digital add/drop metro DWDM system; innovative WDM transport network; large-scale photonic integrated circuits; metro core network; service delivery enhancements; wavelength services; Bandwidth; Circuit testing; Ethernet networks; Integrated circuit technology; Large scale integration; Photonic integrated circuits; Protection; System testing; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006

Print_ISBN

1-55752-803-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2006.215778

Filename

1636809