Colorless, directionless and contentionless multi-degree ROADM architecture for mesh optical networks

2010 2nd International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks, COMSNETS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Devarajan, A ^a   Sandesha, K ^a   Gowrishankar, R ^a   Sai Kishore, B ^b   Prasanna, G ^b   Johnson, Ron ^c   Voruganti, Pavan ^d  

^a SRI SATHYA SAI INSTITUTE OF HIGHER LEARNING   (India)

^b Cisco Systems Inc India   (India)

^c CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d Vello Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorless directionless and contentionless architecture; Photonic cross connect (PXC); Reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer (ROADM); Wavelength selective switch (WSS)

Indexed keywords

HIGH BANDWIDTH; NEW SERVICES; OPTICAL NETWORKS; PHOTONIC CROSSCONNECT; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXERS; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH (WSS); WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE SWITCHES;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CROSS CONNECTIONS (WATER DISTRIBUTION); MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 77952207354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS.2010.5431987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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