Wavelength-tuneable remote node for enhanced resilience and optimization of WDM access networks

Author

Bonada, Francesc ; Schrenk, Bernhard ; Costa, Liliana ; Teixeira, Antonio ; Chatzi, Sotiria ; Klonidis, Dimitrios ; Tomkos, Ioannis ; Prat, Josep ; Lazaro, Jose A.

Author_Institution

Dept. TSC, Univ. Politec. de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A remote node design with a wavelength tuneable optical add/drop element is presented and experimentally demonstrated for application in a resilient ring+tree access network architecture. The flexibility of the network node regarding its allocation to the wavelength dimension of the network can be exploited to retain service delivery in case of subsystem failure at the optical line terminal (OLT) or optical network unit (ONU) as well as for an optimization of the transmission performance when switching from normal to resilient network operation in case of a ring fibre cut. A loss budget of 30 dB is compatible for the passive optical access network.

Keywords

passive optical networks; radio access networks; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM access networks; optical add/drop element; optical line terminal; optical network unit; passive optical access network; resilient ring+tree access network architecture; subsystem failure; wavelength-tuneable remote node; Integrated optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical network units; Optical pumping; Passive optical networks; Fibre-to-the-Home; Optical fibre communication; Passive optical networks; Tuneable filters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2011 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Stockholm

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0881-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2011.5970945

Filename

5970945