Elastic Black Link for future vendor independent optical networks

Matthias Gunkel,Arnold Mattheus,Antonio Napoli,Gianluca Meloni,Francesco Fresi,Talha Rahman

Elastic Black Link for future vendor independent optical networks

2015

Matthias Gunkel
Arnold Mattheus
Antonio Napoli
Gianluca Meloni
Francesco Fresi
Talha Rahman

We review the status of Black Link standardization activities, prospects and challenges on possible elastic-optical extensions, and report on the latest experimental achievements on DSP technology compatibility for next generation 1.28 Tb/s PM-16QAM super-channel.

Keywords:

Multiwavelength optical networking
Free-space optical communication
Vendor
Standardization
Passive optical network
Electronic engineering
Optical Transport Network
Engineering
Optics
Optical performance monitoring
Telecommunications
Optical cross-connect

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