Optical cross-connect systems for restoration of backbone fiber networks

27 November 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

p. 271-272
https://doi.org/10.1109/ofc.1998.657390

Abstract

Summary form only given. As the capacity of backbone networks is becoming larger, restoration against fiber/cable failures must become faster, because large amounts of data would be lost during the failure. The optical cross-connect (OXC) technology is an attractive alternative for fast restoration, and has the potential to provide bandwidth-management capability in future wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks. This paper describes newly developed OXC systems with a low insertion loss of 1.16 dB and a high-speed restoration of <150 ms.

Keywords

OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS
SPINE
OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES
OPTICAL FIBER CABLES
OPTICAL SWITCHES
HIGH SPEED OPTICAL TECHNIQUES
OPTICAL FIBER LOSSES
ROUTING
INSERTION LOSS
CONDITION MONITORING

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

A transport network layer based on optical network elements
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 1993

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