Abstract
A network concept is introduced that exploits transparent optical grooming of traffic between an access network and a metro core ring network. This network is enabled by an optical router that allows bufferless aggregation of metro network traffic into higher-capacity data streams for core network transmission. A key functionality of the router is WDM to time-division multiplexing (TDM) transmultiplexing. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 928-935 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Optical Networking |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 11 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2008 |