2014
Conference Paper
Title

Flexible optical infrastructure for Ethernet transport: Solutions and enabling technologies in the ICT STRAUSS project

Abstract
Cloud applications and the global delivery of Ethernet services require a scalable, reliable, virtualizable and cost/energy efficient optical transport infrastructure able to support data rates beyond 100 Gb/s. The ICT STRAUSS project addresses the requirement of future optical infrastructures for Ethernet transport beyond 100 Gb/s, by combining two network switching technologies, namely Optical Packet Switching (OPS) and flexible Optical Circuit Switching (OCS). In this paper, cost/energy-efficient solutions and technology enablers are presented, specifically dealing with data plane aspects, such as the design and development of sliceable bandwidth variable transponders (S-BVT), fixed-length variable-capacity OPS, flexi-grid optical switching nodes and OPS/OCS integrated interface.
Author(s)
Moreolo, M.S.
Fabrega, J.M.
Nishihara, M.
Tanaka, T.
Takahara, T.
Rasmussen, J.C.
Yan, S.
Rofoee, B.R.
Yan, Y.
Hugues-Salas, E.
Shu, Y.
Zervas, G.
Simeonidou, D.
Rosal, L.F. del
Schlosser, M.
Kitayama, K.
Macho Ortiz, A.
Lopez, V.
Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.
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English