Abstract
An experimental all-optical, wavelength-routed network testbed has been constructed in the Boston metropolitan area. [1]. The network has 20 optical channels, spaced by 50 GHz and provides dedicated circuit-switched wide-band service at user defined modulation formats and rates up to 10 Gbps, and timeslotted WDM services for medium and low-rate users [2,3]. We are now characterizing the deployed network which spans over 87 km interconnecting four all-optical local-area networks in Littleton, Lexington, and Cambridge Massachusetts. We discuss wavelength sharing and reuse, local broadcast, routing, multi-cast and multi-hop connections at 1.244, 2.488, and 10 Gbps. We present the system design and the performance (e.g. BER and cross-talk) of local-broadcast, metropolitan-area-routed and broadcast transmission modes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 264-273 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volume | 2614 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 1 1995 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | All-Optical Communication Systems: Architecture, Control, and Network Issues 1995 - Philadelphia, United States Duration: Oct 22 1995 → Oct 26 1995 |
Keywords
- All-optical
- FDM
- Highspeed
- Networks
- TDM
- Time-slotted
- WDM
- Wavelength-routed
- Wideband
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering