Title :
Utilization rate of multi carrier transponders deployed in the CONUS network with MCS-based contentionless OXCs
Author_Institution :
Alcatel-Lucent, Route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France
Abstract :
In the context of Nyquist superchannels transmission in the CONUS WDM network, this study illustrates the compromise between saving add/drop equipments in contentionless OXCs and improving utilization rate of the whole capacity of the deployed integrated multi carrier transponders.
Keywords :
"Ports (Computers)","Optical switches","Transponders","Optical amplifiers","Optical transmitters","Wavelength division multiplexing","Filling"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341674