Faults and Recovery Methods in Regional Undersea OADM Networks

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

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Turukhin, A. V.; Akhtar, A.; Mohs, G.; Golovchenko, E. A. (Tyco Telecommunications, 250 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, NJ 07724, USA)

Abstract:
An experimental study of faults in an important class of undersea OADM networks demonstrates that channel performance through surviving segments can be recovered by the terminal-based procedures enabled by a fault resilient network design.