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Scalability Issues in Optical Networks
Peter OHLEN Eilert BERGLIND Lars THYLEN
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E82-B
No.2
pp.231-238 Publication Date: 1999/02/25 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Photonics in Switching: Systems and Devices) Category: Photonic Networking Keyword: optical communication, noise, jitter, repeaters, optoelectronic devices,
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Summary:
Since the inception of optical networking, a goal has been to create an all-optical network. The rapid breakthrough for WDM in point to point links has brought this prospect considerably closer, however, at the same time, questions regarding the scalability of the all-optical network remain. In this paper, we review our recent research in this area, partly performed within the European Union project METON (METropolitan Optical Network), and discuss the all-optical approach and different optoelectronic alternatives, mainly of the 2R (reamplify and reshape) type.
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