DocumentCode
635698
Title
Low contention and high resilience to partial failure for colorless and directionless OXC
Author
Zami, Thierry ; Chiaroni, D.
Author_Institution
Opt., Alcatel-Lucent, Nozay, France
fYear
2012
fDate
11-14 Sept. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
In the frame of 4 and 8-degree wavelength routing cross-connects, we examine the design of modular, colorless, and directionless add/drop blocks enabling internal blocking ratio smaller than 1% even in case of partial failure.
Keywords
optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 4-degree wavelength routing cross-connects; 8-degree wavelength routing cross-connects; add-drop blocks; colorless OXC; directionless OXC; internal blocking ratio; partial failure; wavelength contention; Layout; Optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing; optical cross-connect; wavelength contention; wavelength routing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Ajaccio
Type
conf
Filename
6608250
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