Ellis, AD, Cotter, D, Ibrahim, S, Weerasuriya, R, Chow, CW, Leuthold, J, Freude, W, Sygletos, S, Vorreau, P, Bonk, R, Hillerkuss, D, Tomkos, I, Tzanakaki, A, Kouloumentas, C, Richardson, DJ, Petropoulos, P, Parmigiani, F, Zarris, G, Simeonidou, D;

2008

August

Journal of Optical Networking

Optical Interconnection of Core and Metro Networks

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A network concept is introduced that exploits transparent optical grooming of traffic between an access network and a metro core ring network. This network is enabled by an optical router that allows bufferless aggregation of metro network traffic into higher-capacity data streams for core network transmission. A key functionality of the router is WDM to time-division multiplexing (TDM) transmultiplexing. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America.