Conference paper
CAPEX/OPEX benefits of Alien Wavelengths for the next generation optical Internet
Standard operational practice mandates deploying expensive transponders at the borders between transport network domains. While this provides service guarantees, it also brings high service cost and increased end-to-end delay for the traffic. Deploying open WDM interfaces, often referred to as Alien Wavelengths, is one solution to overcome these drawbacks.
This article provides an overview of the development of the Alien Wavelength technology to date. CAPEX and OPEX savings examples are provided together with an extensive analysis of the application of the open WDM interfaces for supporting the future optical Internet and its demanding applications. Our analysis indicates up to 60% savings in deployment cost and up to 70% savings in power consumption for hight bit-rate services deployed via open WDM interfaces.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 122-127 |
| Proceedings: | 19th International Conference on Optical Networks Design & Modelling |
| ISBN: | 1479989606 , 3901882723 , 9781479989607 and 9783901882722 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ONDM.2015.7127285 |
| ORCIDs: | Fagertun, Anna Manolova and Ruepp, Sarah Renée |
Alien wavelength technology CAPEX/OPEX benefits Internet Next generation networking Optical fiber networks Power demand Standards Transponders Wavelength division multiplexing delays expensive transponders future applications next generation optical Internet nextgeneration Internet open WDM interfaces optical Internet optical fibre networks telecommunication traffic transport network wavelength division multiplexing
