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Optically transparent integrated metro-access network

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High-capacity optical transmission technologies have made possible very high data rates and a large number of wavelength channels. Further, optical network functionality has made progress from simple point-to-point WDM links to automatically switched optical networks. In the future, dynamic burst-switched and packet-switched photonic networks may be expected. This paper describes a novel architecture of transparent WDM metropolitan area network (MAN) that is capable of switching on both packet-by-packet and burst-by-burst basis, thereby having the potential to achieve high throughput efficiency. The optically transparent MAN also includes a large part of the access network infrastructure. It is scalable, flexible, easy upgradeable and able to support heterogeneous network traffic. Some results of a preliminarly study on network performance are shown.

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Aleksić, S. Optically transparent integrated metro-access network. Telecommun Syst 52, 1505–1515 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-011-9515-3

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