Falling Boundaries from Metro to ULH Optical Transport Equipment

Abstract

With increased price pressure and expanding requirements, metro, regional, and LH/ULH transport equipment are rapidly collapsing toward universal platforms. Enabling technologies and impact of this convergence on optical network architecture and design will be reviewed.

Transparent optical networks become mature - Emerging research areas

“…Transparent optical networks have become an integral part of backbone networks [1][2] with extending worldwide deployment [3][4]. Meanwhile, backbones are facing novel challenges and opportunities.…”