Optical cross connects architecture with per-node add&drop functionality

OFC/NFOEC 2007 - Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ghelfi, Paolo ^a   Cugini, Filippo ^a   Poti, Luca ^a   Bogoni, Antonella ^a   Castoldi, Piero ^b   Di Muro, Rodolfo ^c   Nayar, Bimal ^c  

^a CNIT   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c Ericsson Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TOPOLOGY; WAVELENGTH;

DROP FUNCTIONALITY; MESH TOPOLOGIES; TRANSPARENT NETWORKS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 39749127102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OFC.2007.4348520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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