Demonstration of multi-gigabit/s services over a 20 channel WDM wavelength-routed all-optical metropolitan-area network

M. L. Stevens, B. R. Hemenway, D. M. Castagnozzi, S. A. Parikh, D. Marquis, E. A. Swanson, I. P. Kaminow, U. Koren, C. Dragone, T. Koch, R. E. Thomas, C. Ozveren, E. Grella

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)264-273
Number of pages10
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume2614
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 1995
Externally publishedYes
EventAll-Optical Communication Systems: Architecture, Control, and Network Issues 1995 - Philadelphia, United States
Duration: Oct 22 1995Oct 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

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