Title :
Adaptable infrastructure for future scalable flexible and resilient optical networks
Author :
Amaya, Norberto ; Zervas, Georgios S. ; Simeonidou, Dimitra
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK
Abstract :
A new flexible networking infrastructure able to provide on-demand services and functionalities is proposed. The benefits of the proposed approach in terms of scalability, resiliency and the flexibility to provide various levels of bandwidth virtualisation and arbitrary topology implementation are discussed in the paper.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; telecommunication network topology; virtualisation; adaptable infrastructure; arbitrary topology; bandwidth virtualisation; on-demand services; resilient optical networks; scalable flexible optical networks; Backplanes; Network topology; Optical switches; Repeaters; Servers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ajaccio
