Optical bypassing using a WDM-Gridconnect patchwork

Abstract

In this letter, the properties of transparent wavelength routed transport networks are analyzed which are based on a wavelength-divsion multiplexing (WDM)-Gridconnect patchwork and compared to networks built on a conventional fiber infrastructure. The patchwork represents an example of a partitioned wavelength routed fiber-optic transport network using optical bypassing. The cumulative transit traffic and path length statistics are calculated. Based on these results, recommendations for the transparent network partition size and the number of wavelengths are given.