Multi-Vendor Interoperability Demonstration of Wavelength Switched Optical Network (WSON) with GMPLS Λ-Label Extension

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Okamoto, Shuichi; Tsuritani, Takehiro; Tsurusawa, Munefumi (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., 2-1-15 Ohara Fujimino-shi, Saitama 356-8502, Japan)
Yoshida, Sota; Fujii, Teruko; Kubo, Kazuo; Seno, Shoichiro (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 5-1-1 Ofuna, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa 247-8501, Japan)
Nishioka, Itaru; Sakauchi, Masahiro; Araki, Soichiro (NEC Corporation, 1753 Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8666, Japan)

Abstract:
Interoperable wavelength path control was successfully demonstrated on a multi-vendor WSON testbed by utilizing GMPLS signaling extension with λ-label. Data-plane connections over GMPLS wavelength paths were also confirmed in the testbed with an 880km-in-total network.