Practical considerations for near-zero margin network design and deployment

DW Boertjes, M Reimer, D Côté - Journal of Optical Communications …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Maximizing the delivered capacity of optical transponders by mining the SNR margin to a
near-zero level is of critical importance for the economic viability of future optical networks …

Impact of the band upgrade sequence on the capacity and capital expenditure of multi-band optical networks

N Guo, K Zhang, Y Li, N Deng… - Journal of Optical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-band transmission over existing fibers would be a key strategy for ongoing capacity
expansion even though upgrading from the conventional C band to multi-band, such as the …

Network equipment and their procurement strategy for high capacity elastic optical networks

A Mitra, D Ives, A Lord, S Savory, S Kar… - Journal of Optical …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In elastic optical networks, the success of providing high network capacity depends on the
optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) values of network lightpaths. As each lightpath's OSNR …

Physical layer transmitter and routing optimization to maximize the traffic throughput of a nonlinear optical mesh network

DJ Ives, P Bayvel, SJ Savory - 2014 International Conference …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the physical layer optimization as a means of improving the
utilization of limited network resources. A transparent optical network operating in the …

New method to obtain optimum performance for 100Gb/s multi-span fiber optic lines

VA Konyshev, AV Leonov, OE Nanii… - Optics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Design of DWDM lines requires calculation of optimal input powers for each span. It
is called “optimization of DWDM network”. Different approaches are currently used to solve …

QoT-aware performance evaluation of spectrally–spatially flexible optical networks over FM-MCFs

F Arpanaei, N Ardalani, H Beyranvand… - Journal of Optical …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we study the quality of transmission (QoT) aware routing, modulation level, and
resource assignment problem for transparent flexible optical networks over few-mode multi …

Open optical network planning demonstration

JL Auge, G Grammel, E Le Rouzic, V Curri… - Optical Fiber …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Planning optical networks in a multi-vendor environment calls for open and vendor agnostic
simulation tools to compare different scenarios in “what-if?” analysis and determine the best …

Capacity increase and hardware savings in DWDM networks exploiting next-generation optical line interfaces

S Pato - 2018 20th International Conference on Transparent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In transport networks, each generation of optical line interfaces brings the prospect of even
higher capacity and further reductions in the cost per bit transported. Currently deployed line …

Multi-band optical systems to enable ultra-high speed transmissions

A Ferrari, A Napoli, N Costa, JK Fischer… - … Conference on Lasers …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Current forecasts indicate that the fastest growing IP-traffic is in metro and data center
interconnect (DCI)[1]. The exploitation of the entire low-loss spectrum of single-mode fibers …

Optical metro network design with low cost of equipment

O Karandin, O Ayoub, M Ibrahimi… - … on optical network …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New arising 5G services will pressure optical metro networks with unprecedented
requirements. As operators' revenues are not scaling accordingly, several technical …