PMD outage measurements in a joint field trial of a 43-Gbit/s NTT WDM transmission system within DT's installed fiber environment

PMD induced system outage probabilities have been measured in a joint field trial of NTT and DT. For outage evaluation 43-Gbit/s CS-RZ signals of the NTT WDM system were transmitted over selected high-PMD fiber links of DT's fiber network.