Quantifying the benefit of wavelength add-drop in WDM rings with distance-independent and dependent traffic

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-57

  Simmons, Jane M ^a   Goldstein, Evan L ^a   Saleh, Adel A M ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Add drop multiplexers; Ring bundling; SONET wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) rings; Wavelength add drop

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL NETWORK (SONET); WAVELENGTH ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXERS (WADM);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0032785156     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.737421     Document Type: Article

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