Evaluation of amount of equipment on single-layer optical path networks managing multigranularity optical paths

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1971-1978

  Yamawaku, Jun ^a   Takada, Atsushi ^a   Imajuku, Wataru ^a   Morioka, Toshio ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Higher order optical path (HO OP); Lower order optical path (LO OP); Multigranularity optical path; Optical path cross connect (OXC); Optical switch (OSW)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

HIGHER ORDER OPTICAL PATH (HO-OP); LOWER ORDER OPTICAL PATH (LO-OP); MULTIGRANULARITY OPTICAL PATH; OPTICAL PATH CROSS CONNECT (OXC);

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 22444438927     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.849939     Document Type: Article

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