Title :
Pre-emptive reprovisioning in mesh optical networks
Author :
Ramamurthy, R. ; Akyamac, A. ; Labourdette, I-F ; Chaudhuri, S.
Author_Institution :
Tellium Inc., Oceanport, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Pre-emptive reprovisioning is a method to perform reprovisioning of a backup path in advance of a second failure, to reduce the time to recover service from seconds (reprovisioning) to milliseconds (restoration). We evaluate the tradeoff between benefits and operational complexity.
Keywords :
failure analysis; optical fibre networks; mesh optical networks; operational complexity; pre-emptive reprovisioning; Costs; Fabrics; Intelligent networks; Optical fiber networks; Pulse width modulation; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Transponders; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248571
