A case study of a WDM agent

Author

Badt, H. ; Jousset, L. ; Letellier, X. ; Vnit, V. ; Drion, C.

Author_Institution

Central Res. Center, Alcatel, Richardson, TX, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

477

Lastpage

483

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of the development of a WDM agent for the control of two prototype photonic network elements, an optical add/drop multiplexer and an optical cross-connect. Even though the hardware developed for these prototypes is too small for a commercial device, the software is fully featured, and with modifications, could support devices of many times the complexity of the prototypes. The agent is developed using a WDM information model developed at Alcatel, and supports two kinds of protection

Keywords

multiplexing equipment; optical fibre networks; optical switches; software agents; telecommunication computing; wavelength division multiplexing; Alcatel; WDM agent; information model; optical add/drop multiplexer; optical cross-connect; photonic network elements; software; Bit rate; Computer aided software engineering; Hardware; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Prototypes; Software prototyping; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management, 1999. Distributed Management for the Networked Millennium. Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5748-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.1999.770702

Filename

770702