Toward wide-scale all-optical transparent networking the ACTS optical pan-European network (OPEN) project.

Toward wide-scale all-optical transparent networking the ACTS optical pan-European network (OPEN) project.

The European ACTS project optical pan-European network (OPEN) aims at assessing the feasibility of an optical pan-European overlay network, interconnecting major European cities by means of a mesh of high-capacity optical fiber links, cross-connected through transparent photonic nodes. Both the tran...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 16, 7 (1998).
Main Author: Chbat, M.W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
10 Gbit/s.
1000 km.
2.5 Gbit/s.
ACTS optical pan-European network.
Belgium.
Denmark.
France.
Norway.
OPEN project.
OTDM/WDM interface.
WDM all-optical technologies.
All-optical space routing.
Dimensioning.
High-capacity optical fiber links.
Laboratory demonstrations.
Multiwavelength crossconnect prototype.
Network physical layer simulation.
Network topology.
Optical crossconnects.
Optical pan-European overlay network.
Optical time division multiplexing.
Optimization.
Optoelectronic devices.
Packaged functional modules.
Routing network elements.
Standard/submarine cable links.
Transparent photonic nodes.
Wavelength division multiplexing.
Wavelength routing.
Wavelength translation.
Wide-scale all-optical transparent networking.