Experimental Demonstration of a Flexible Filterless and Bidirectional SDM Optical Metro/Inter-DC Network
Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Proceedings: ECOC 2016
Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Saridis, G. M. (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan & High Performance Networks, University of Bristol, UK)
Puttnam, B. J.; Luis, R. S.; Klaus, W.; Miyazawa, T.; Awaji, Y.; Wada, N. (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan)
Zervas, G.; Simeonidou, D. (High Performance Networks, University of Bristol, UK)
Abstract:
We experimentally evaluate a filterless, all-optical network using architecture-on-demand nodes and MCF-based links for metro and inter-data centre communication. We demonstrate that bidirectional SDM networking with elastic super-channels can eliminate drop-and-waste while supporting hitless dynamic bandwidth allocation.