Title :
An optical bidirectional self-healing ring with increased capacity using WDM
Author :
Cadeddu, R. ; Caponio, N. ; Cerisola, M. ; Ferraris, G. ; Finotti, R. ; Giaffreda, R. ; Lano, R. ; Mariconda, A. ; Pallotta, A. ; Tebaldini, S.
Author_Institution :
CSELT, Torino, Italy
Abstract :
A novel optical bidirectional self-healing ring architecture is presented. It uses WDM to protect an SDH ring, allowing to fully exploit the bandwidth available in the STM-N signals and resulting in doubling the ring capacity.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; synchronous digital hierarchy; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; SDH ring; STM-N signals; WDM; bandwidth; increased capacity; optical bidirectional self-healing ring; optical bidirectional self-healing ring architecture; ring capacity;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 1996. ECOC '96. 22nd European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Oslo, Norway
Print_ISBN :
82-423-0418-1
