… 3.2 The 5G Requirements Driving Network Convergence and Virtualization 5G is the next
generation of networking that has been driving future network requirements for the past few …

… by means of an intelligent software-defined networking (SDN)-enabled … For a Metro-Access
segment this could sum up to the sub-… and the migration to software defined access networks (…

… by the introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), … to communicate with other
metro-access networks. The number of … plays the same role in a converged metro-access context. …

… ), closer to the end-user at the metro/access nodes. The traffic is envisioned to be optically/…
Nadal, “S-BVT for nextgeneration optical metro networks: Benefits, design and key enabling …

… software defined networking (SDN) controller, able to satisfy the requirements of future
converged metro-access networks. … bs proposed solution for the next generation 50G TDM-PON. …

… enable the access and metro convergence and the joint and … The nodes of the lower layer,
the metro access nodes, are … access networks that support software defined networking …

Relevance of research on telecommunications networks is predicated upon the implementations
which it explicitly claims or implicitly subsumes. This paper supports researchers …

… Results show that the proposed software defined converged approach to wavelength and
bandwidth management guarantees the optimal allocation of optical resources. The triple …

… Figure 1 illustrates the edge computing scenario in metroaccess networks. The optical network
units (ONUs) and optical line terminals (OLTs) are the two main components of the TWDM…

… The main issues with “opaque” networks are, on the one hand, their high energy … at low
to medium rate (ie for Access or Metro Access areas) but too fine for Metro Core ones as large …