Gridless Optical Networking Field Trial: Flexible Spectrum Switching, Defragmentation and Transport of 10G/40G/100G/555G over 620-km Field Fiber

Norberto Amaya Gonzalez, Muhammad Irfan, Georgios Zervas, K. Banias, M. Garrich, I. Henning, Dimitra Simeonidou, Yu Rong Zhou, Andrew Lord, Kevin Smith, Victor Rancano, Sheng Liu, Periklis Petropoulos, David Richardson

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Abstract

We report the first gridless networking field trial with flexible spectrum switching
nodes over 620 km field fibre links. Successful transport, spectrum switching and defragmentation achieved for mixed line signals including 555G and coherent 100G.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication37th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011, PostDeadline
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)978-1-4577-1918-9
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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