[WA3] Optical Network System and Architecture

3:15 PM - 3:30 PM JST(6:15 AM - 6:30 AM UTC)

[WA3-3] Provisioning in SDM/BDM Network Based on Hierarchical Optical Cross-connects

○Saki Sakurai¹, Katsuaki Higashimori¹, Takuya Ohara¹ (1. NTT Corporation (Japan))

Keywords:

Optical core/metro network architecture,design,control,and management

We propose an efficient provisioning scheme in spatial-/band-division multiplexed networks based on hierarchical optical cross-connect (HOXC). Considering switching restrictions caused by HOXC, the proposed scheme accommodates over twice as much traffic as the conventional scheme.