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We compare SDM joint and independent switching strategies in a planning scenario involving a European backbone network. Joint switching can achieve cost savings of 40–50% with a performance similar to that of independent switching.
Upgrading the capacity of backbone optical networks while delivering contents to the end-users with a reduced cost per bit is a day-by-day challenge of network operators. In this paper, we first discuss several mid-term options for capacity upgrades including migration to multi-fibre and multi-band systems (utilizing amplification systems with bandwidth extending over the C+L or the S+C+L bands)....
The current generation of optical networks based on a fixed wavelength grid and on fixed-rate transponders would impose relevant limitations for future transmission rates exceeding 100 Gb/s, thereby limiting the number of potential implementations and making a new generation of elastic optical networks (EON) necessary. To this regard, flexible-grid (Flexgrid) transmission and switching technologies...
This paper discusses the technical feasibility and network-level potential of defragmentation as a means of extending the capacity of optical transport networks. An experimental setup successfully demonstrates the possibility of rearranging connections spectrally in order to compact spectrum and harvest the benefits from more efficient flexible-grid channel formats. Furthermore, network simulations...
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