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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ajaccio
