Field trial of 160 Gbit/s DWDM-based optical packet switching and transmission

We demonstrated, for the first time, a field trial of 160 (16λ × 10) Gbit/s, fine granularity, DWDM-based optical packet switching and transmission by newly- eveloped burst-mode EDFAs and an optical packet switch prototype with multiple all-optical label processors. We achieved 64 km field transmission and switching of 160 (16λ × 10) Gbit/s DWDM-based optical packets encapsulating almost 10 Gbit/s IP packets with error-free operation (IP-packet-loss-rate <10-6and bit-error-rate <10-9).