Easy Optical Defragmentation with SDN Controlled Tunable Transmitter

Arnaud Dupas (1) , Dominique Verchere (1) , Quan Pham Van (1) , Patricia Layec (1) , Laurent Bramerie (2) , Arnaud Carer (3) , Benoît Haentjens (4) , Ester Le Rouzic (5)

1 Nokia Bell Labs [Nozay]
2 FOTON - Institut des Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
3 GRANIT - Algorithmes et architectures adaptatifs pour les systèmes sans-fils efficaces en énergie
4 Vectrawave
5 Orange Labs

To ease automatic optical spectrum defragmentation, we present a programmable SDN controlled 100Gbit/s transmitter prototype with a fast wavelength and bitrate switching capabilities. It can be tuned in 0.5 ms over all C-band and used for service hitless defragmentation application.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Arnaud Dupas, Dominique Verchere, Quan Pham Van, Patricia Layec, Laurent Bramerie, et al.. Easy Optical Defragmentation with SDN Controlled Tunable Transmitter. 44th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2018), Sep 2018, Roma, Italy. IEEE Xplore Digital Library, 2018, 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC). ⟨10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535104⟩. ⟨hal-01934746⟩