Summary
Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications
2015
Session Number:14-AM2-C
Session:
Number:14-AM2-C-4
Proposal of a Simple CD ROADM with Contention-free Add/Drop Function
Ayako Iwaki, Akio Sahara, Mitsunori Fukutoku,
pp.33-36
Publication Date:2015/10/14
Online ISSN:2188-5079
DOI:10.34385/proc.28.14-AM2-C-4
Summary:
We propose a simple configuration for colorless and directionless (CD) reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers that enables contention-free add/drop operation to be achieved. In the configuration, we apply a combination of multiple small-port-count CD add/drop banks (CD banks) and round-robin CD bank assignment. Evaluation results show that the proposed configuration can substantially reduce intra-node contention.