… topic especially targeting metro/core networks. However, … current metro networks to cover the
entire access and metro areas … nodes and employing conventional schemes for optical-path …

… , optical regional metropolitan area networks. From our initial research efforts on studying and
quantifying the benefits of optical transparency in metropolitan area networks… optical nodes …

… metro-network physical topology a bidirectional ring with a radius of R km, N nodes, and 2N
optical … Hence, in our analysis addressed to metro networks, we do not take into account the …

… allows each node to send a single optical packet whenever a … , and each node selects the
direction on which to send optical packets … A source POADM node builds optical packets called …

… as optical backhauling of radio networks including low latency high bandwidth inter-node …
the core network is established via only a few active nodes in the area. It must be noted that …

… the metro network and the end-user. However, bridging optical access and metro networks
… At each OMAN remote node (RN), optical switches (OSws) can support downlink and uplink …

… scalable and novel modular optical metro core node architecture and low cost metro access
… for more flexible and dynamic optical metro networks capable to quickly and efficiently be …

… innovations in optical networking have altered the economics for access and metro networks
and … focus on the security of the physical plant and rely on node and link redundancy mecha…

… architecture of the optical nodes follows the generic approach presented in [34] and can
be structured in three layers. The optical network data plane consists of FPGA nodes for high-…

… subsequent OADM nodes following such rule. In Fig.2, we discuss an overall control strategy
which aims at the optical channel. Differing from the way of node-by-node equalization we …