It has been a decisive goal in the compilation of this thesis to make us capable of realizing
the future national and regional telecommunication networks in an efficient and resource …

The advances in optical fibre transmission technology over the past years have kept pace
with the demand for increased bandwidth. In particular the introduction of the WDM …

Next generation optical networks have to deal with four major areas of interdependency
between optical technologies and network architecture:(1) the increase of capacity and …

The high cost for WDM qualified components like laser transponders and optical switching
matrices obstract the introduction of the configurable optical network technology …

This talk will discuss research results on Strategic Planning obtained in the IWT GBOU-
project “Optical Networks and Node Architectures”. The network planning problem is …

Wide area all-optical networks are emerging as practical and future-proof solution to the
enormous bandwidth requirements of today's end users. Over the past few years, the field of …

This paper presents a study on dynamic wavelength routed all-optical networks by
simulating traffic on all-optical networks. A performance study is carried out on dynamic all …

Optical Network Page 159 A Functional Model for the SONATA Switchless Optical Network S.
De Maesschalck, P. Demeester Dep. of Information Technology, University of Gent—IMEC …

Wavelength assignment in optical networks according to traffic requirements and transmission
impairments Page 1 Wavelength assignment in optical networks according to traffic requirements …

In wavelength division multiplexed optical networks each connection is assigned a light-
path. Given a set of connection requests, how to set up a light-path for each of them is called …