• DocumentCode
    3692051
  • Title

    Cost analysis of super-channel based colorless, directionless and contentionless (CDC) ROADM architectures

  • Author

    Anuj Malik;Marco Sosa

  • Author_Institution
    Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    241
  • Lastpage
    243
  • Abstract
    This paper compares the incremental cost of CDC features in super-channel based and wavelength based ROADM architectures. A real world network model analysis shows fewer network components and less incremental cost with super-channel CDC ROADM.
  • Keywords
    "Optical switches","Optical add-drop multiplexers","Ports (Computers)","Cost benefit analysis","Computer architecture","Optical fiber networks","Optical devices"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics in Switching (PS), 2015 International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PS.2015.7329013
  • Filename
    7329013