Flexible OADM Architecture and Its Impact on WDM Ring Evolution for Robust and Large-Scale Optical Transport Networks

Naohide NAGATSU
Satoru OKAMOTO
Masafumi KOGA
Ken-ichi SATO

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E82-B    No.8    pp.1105-1114
Publication Date: 1999/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Joint Special Issue on Recent Progress in Optoelectronics and Communications)
Category: Communication Networks
Keyword: 
optical transport network,  ring network,  global area network,  optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM),  path protection,  

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Summary: 
This paper discusses global area optical transport ring networks using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technologies and proposes a novel optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) architecture suitable for such an application field. Study on the requirements of a global area ring application elucidates the appropriate ring/protection architecture as the path switched bi-directional ring. The proposed OADM architecture has flexibility in terms of path provisioning and scalability. We conclude that the proposed OADM can effectively configure the large-scale path switched bi-directional rings.