Paper Info
Title
High-Throughput and High-Port-Count Optical Cross- Connents Using Flexible Waveband Routing
Abstract
Currently deployed optical cross-connects (OXCs) cannot support the large traffic expected in the near future because of the limited port count of wavelength-selective switches (WSSs). To resolve this problem, we proposed an OXC architecture that combines joint-switch WSSs and space switches. This OXC architecture realizes high port counts with low hardware cost in return for the additional insertion loss. However, the attainable maximum port count is still limited since the insertion loss increases with the port count. In this paper, we newly propose an OXC architecture whose insertion loss is constant irrespective of the port count. Consequently, the port count is virtually unlimited. Computer simulations show its low hardware cost and good routing performance. A proof-of-concept experiment evaluates the transmission performance, where the net throughput of 2.15 Pbps with port count of 84 is demonstrated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.23919/ONDM48393.2020.9133005
2020 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Optical-path network,Elastic optical network,Optical cross-connect,Wavelength-selective switch
Conference
978-3-903176-21-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takuma Kuno100.34
Yojiro Mori2912.44
Suresh Subramaniam31050124.36
Masahiko Jinno457874.52
Hiroshi Hasegawa51815.70