Network Control and Management Challenges in Opaque Networks Utilizing Transparent Optical Switches

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Ellinas, Georgios ^a,e   Labourdette, Jean Francois ^b   Walker, James A ^c   Chaudhuri, Sid ^b   Lin, Lih Y ^d   Goldstein, Evan ^d   Bala, Krishna ^b  

^a City College   (United States)

^b Tellium Inc   (United States)

^c JayWalker Technical Consulting   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL SWITCHES; TRANSCEIVERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPAQUE NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE CROSSCONNECTS (WSXC);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 1342286930     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2003.1267097     Document Type: Article

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