Techno-Economic Analysis of Carrier Sources in Slice-able Bandwidth Variable Transponders
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:
Imran, Muhammad (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy)
Errico, A. D. (Ericsson, Pisa, Italy)
Lord, Andrew (BT Research Labs, Ipswich, UK)
Poti, Luca (CNIT Pisa, Italy)
Abstract:
Different carrier source implementation strategies in sliceable bandwidth variable transponders have been compared in terms of cost and power consumption. A reduction factor up to 4 has been obtained through novel centralized carrier source schemes.