32 × 10 Gbit/s DWDM metropolitan network demonstration with 10 waveband-ADMs and 155 km TeraLight™ Metro fiber

Author

Noirie, Ludovic ; Dorgeuille, F.O. ; Bisson, Arnaud

Author_Institution

Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Marcoussis, France

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

443

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrated the physical feasibility of a transparent waveband-based DWDM metropolitan ring network with 10 nodes and different fiber spans between nodes. it operates at 32 × 10 Gbit/s per fiber over up to 155 km TeraLight™ Metro fiber in an experiment which is representative of a real metropolitan network. Such a network is cost effective thanks to demultiplexing and switching cost sharing between the wavelengths gathered in wavebands, thanks to amplification cost sharing between nodes (one double-stage EDFA for two nodes is achievable), and thanks to TeraLight™ Metro fiber which avoids to use dispersion compensated fibre (DCF) modules for more than 150 km of transmission.

Keywords

demultiplexing; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre amplifiers; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; 155 km; 320 Gbit/s; DCF modules; Gbit/s DWDM metropolitan network demonstration; TeraLight™ Metro fiber; add drop multiplexers; amplification cost sharing; cost effective; demultiplexing; dispersion compensated fibre modules; double-stage EDFA; fiber spans; real metropolitan network; switching cost sharing; transparent waveband-based DWDM metropolitan ring network; Add-drop multiplexers; Bones; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Scalability; Spine; Technological innovation; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036472

Filename

1036472