Translucent Optical WDM Networks for the Next-Generation Backbone Networks

Authors

Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Srinath Yaragorla, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Xi Yang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

2001

Citation

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001 . GLOBECOM '01 . Volume: 1 Digital Object Identifier: 10.11 09/GLOCOM.2001 .965080 Publication Year: 2001 , Page(s): 60 - 64 vol. 1

Comments

© 2001 IEEE

Abstract

This paper proposes an alternate approach to fully transparent and fully opaque optical networks for operating a wavelength routed optical network. In this paper, the architecture of the regeneration node that performs sparse regeneration (or translucency) is discussed. The regeneration demands generated from call blocking and signal quality requirements are addressed. Two implementation strategies for incorporating sparse regeneration are introduced and their relative merits are studied.