The transport performance of an optically transparent metro-size ring network of 280 km circumference, at 2.5 Gbps, based on optimized optical layer components and fiber is demonstrated. Nodes based on a variety of technological approaches are used. This size was chosen based on recent studies that have shown that this is the typical maximum connection length in metro networks. The Q-factor of the received signal, for the worst case path, was higher than 10 dB for all the channels. In particular, we show that the dynamic add/drop functionality in the network does not affect the system performance when gain controlled amplifiers are used.


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    Title :

    Study of a transparent and reconfigurable metropolitan area network


    Contributors:
    Madamopoulos, N. (author) / Friedman, C. (author) / Tomkos, I. (author) / Boskovic, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    2001-01-01


    Size :

    226426 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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