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

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

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.