Journal article
Alien Wavelengths in National Research and Education Network Infrastructures Based on Open Line Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Networks Technology and Service Platforms, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
CESNET3
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center4
GÈANT5
SURFnet6
Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark7
Greek Research and Technology Network8
Uninett AS9
The European National Research and Education Networks have a long tradition of shared use of resources, in particular, by deploying alien wavelengths (AWs) that disaggregate the transponders from the optical transport network. This network evolution is being extended by making use of White Boxes and fully disaggregated transport networks.
In this paper, management architecture and White Box interoperability scenarios are discussed, and it is shown that a software defined networking based solution can be used to manage selected optical White Boxes. Novel transport network simulation tools are compared with existing tools and validated against physical links to highlight the potential and applicability of such tools for analysis and estimation of performance evolution trends for AW deployments.
Results show good correlation between new and existing tools, although initially developed for different purposes.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Pages: | 118-29 |
| ISSN: | 19430639 and 19430620 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1364/JOCN.11.000118 |
| ORCIDs: | Wessing, Henrik , Petersen, Martin Nordal and Pilimon, Artur |
AW deployments European National Research and Education Networks Optical fiber devices Optical fibers Tools Transponders Wavelength division multiplexing White Box interoperability scenarios alien wavelengths fully disaggregated transport networks management architecture network evolution novel transport network simulation tools open line systems open systems optical White Boxes optical fibre networks optical transport network software defined networking
