Sliceable transponder architecture including multiwavelength source

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 590-600

  Sambo, Nicola ^a   D'Errico, Antonio ^b   Porzi, Claudio ^a   Vercesi, Valeria ^c   Imran, Muhammad ^a   Cugini, Filippo ^c   Bogoni, Antonella ^c   Potì, Luca ^c   Castoldi, Piero ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c CNIT   (Italy)

Author keywords

400 Gb s; Flex grid; SBVT; Sliceability; Sliceable transponder; Super channel

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

400 GB/S; FLEX-GRID; SBVT; SLICEABILITY; SUPER-CHANNEL;

TRANSPONDERS;

EID: 84904288566     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOCN.2014.6850200     Document Type: Article

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