A. Ellis, D. Cotter, S. Ibrahim, R. Weerasuriya, C. Chow, J. Leuthold, W. Freude, S. Sygletos, P. Vorreau, R. Bonk, D. Hillerkuss, Ioannis Tomkos, A. Tzanakaki, C. Kouloumentas, D. Richardson, P. Petropoulos, F. Parmigiani, G. Zarris, D. Simeonidou
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Abstract
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.