Wavelength switched hybrid TDMA/WDM (TWDM) PON: A flexible next-generation optical access solution

Author

Dixit, Abhishek ; Lannoo, Bart ; Colle, Didier ; Pickavet, Mario ; Demeester, Piet

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the system concepts of a next-generation wavelength switched hybrid time division multiple access and wavelength division multiplexing (TWDM) passive optical network (PON) architecture. In this architecture, wavelength selective switches (WSSs) are used at the remote node to improve flexibility, data security and power budget compared to other TWDM-PON variants. We map the proposed architecture to the requirements of next-generation optical access networks in a 2020 perspective. Finally, we benchmark the proposed architecture with other proposed TWDM-PON solutions.

Keywords

next generation networks; optical switches; passive optical networks; telecommunication security; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; TWDM PON architecture; WSS; data security; flexible next-generation optical access solution; next-generation optical access network; next-generation wavelength switched hybrid time division multiple access; passive optical network; power budget; remote node; wavelength division multiplexing; wavelength selective switches; wavelength switched hybrid TDMA/WDM; Optical network units; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Power demand; Time division multiple access; Wavelength division multiplexing; flexibility; hybrid TDMA/WDM-PON; passive optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coventry

ISSN

2161-2056

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2228-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253746

Filename

6253746