Flexible and Scalable High-Density Quad-play Packet-Switched Access Infrastructure based on WDM Routing and Dynamic TDM Access

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Bock, C.; Walker, S. D. (University of Essex, Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK)
Prat, J. (Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya, Dept. of Signal Theory and Communications, Barcelona, E-08034, SP)

Abstract:
We describe a 2.5 Gbps WDM/TDM PON architecture featuring quad-play connectivity to 8,192 users. 256-times laser-sharing with dynamic bandwidth allocation can offer 60% throughput increase and 50% latency reduction compared to a conventional static network.