Toward wide-scale all-optical transparent networking: The ACTS optical pan-European network (OPEN) project

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1226-1242

  Chbat, Michel W ^b   Grard, Emmanuel ^b   Berthelon, Luc ^b   Jourdan, Amaury ^b   Perrier, Philippe A ^a,b   Leclert, Alain ^a,c   Landousies, B ^c   Ramdane, A ^c   Parnis, Noel ^d   Jones, Edwin V ^a,d   Limal, Emmanuel ^e   Poulsen, Henrik N ^e   Pedersen, R J S ^e   Flaaronning N ^f   Vercauteren, Danny ^g   Puleo, Mario ^a,h   Ciaramella, Ernesto ^h   Marone, Giuseppe ^h   Hess, R ⁱ   Melchior, H ⁱ   Van Parys, Wim ^j   Demeester, Piet M ^a,j   Godsvang P J ^k   Olsen, Torodd ^l   Hjelme, Dag R ^a,m   more..

^a IEEE

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ORANGE LABS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Alcatel Telecommunications ^*  (Norway)

^g Belgacom SA   (Belgium)

^h Ctro Studi Laboratori T   (Italy)

ⁱ ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^j GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^k TDC AS   (Denmark)

^l TELENOR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^m SINTEF   (Norway)

more..

Author keywords

ACTS; All optical networks; Field trials; panEuropean network; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; SUBMARINE CABLES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ALL-OPTICAL TRANSPARENT NETWORKING; OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (OTDM);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0032157914     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.725192     Document Type: Article

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