The introduction of an optical path layer in the transport network allows the improving of the transport nodes processing capability, through wavelength routing , besides increase in point-to-point transmission capacity granted by wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technique. A generic node of a transport network could be designed as an optical crossconnect (OXC) interfacing a digital cross-connect (DXC). In this paper we distinguish between low, medium and high degree of modularity, and discuss the modularity for some relevant OXC architectures. Moreover a new highly modular OXC architecture is proposed.


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    Title :

    Modularity requirements for optical cross-connects in transport networks


    Contributors:
    Sabella, R. (author) / Iannone, E. (author)


    Publication date :

    1996-01-01


    Size :

    230067 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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