Title :
Benefits of grooming capable cross-connects in a Pan-European Optical Network
Author :
Ranganathan, Raghu ; Blair, Loudon ; Berthold, Joseph
Author_Institution :
CIENA Corp., Linthicum, MD, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate potential cost savings by placing electrical "grooming" cross-connects into a core network consisting predominantly of optical cross-connects while simultaneously improving bandwidth utilisation, relaxing unregenerated distance/hop count and lowering network capacity requirements.
Keywords :
electronic switching systems; optical fibre networks; wavelength division multiplexing; Pan-European Optical Network; WDM transponders; bandwidth utilisation; circuit routing; core network; cost savings; electrical grooming cross-connects; network analysis; network capacity; network cost; traffic modelling; unregenerated distance/hop count; All-optical networks; Bandwidth; Costs; Intelligent networks; Internet; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Repeaters; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989421
