Design and experiments of an automatic switched optical network (ASON)

Author

Raptis, Lampros ; Chatzilias, Giorgos ; Manzalini, Antonio ; Cavazzoni, Carlo ; Ricucci, Giuseppe ; Lehr, G. ; Hartmer, U. ; Geerdsen, R. ; Jaeger, M. ; Gladisch, A. ; Colle, D. ; De Maesschalck, S. ; Lievens, I. ; Demeester, P. ; Piergiovanni, Luigi

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

256

Abstract

This paper describes the activities and the preliminary results of the IST Project LION (Layers Interworking in Optical Networks), whose main objective is to design and test a robust and managed transport network based on an automatic switched optical network (ASON).

Keywords

internetworking; optical fibre networks; optical switches; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication signalling; transport protocols; ASON; IP routers; IST Project LION; Layers Interworking in Optical Networks; WDM systems; automatic switched optical network; managed transport network; network signalling; network survivability; reliable network design; routing protocols; Bandwidth; Costs; IP networks; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Protection; Routing protocols; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989615

Filename

989615