Experimental characterization of a new multicasting node architecture based on space splitters and wavelength converters

Hao He; Yikai Su; Peigang Hu; Weisheng Hu

doi:10.1117/12.636349

5 December 2005 Experimental characterization of a new multicasting node architecture based on space splitters and wavelength converters

Hao He, Yikai Su, Peigang Hu, Weisheng Hu

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Proceedings Volume 6022, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications III; 60221Q (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.636349
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China

Abstract

IPTV-based broadband services such as interactive multimedia and video conferencing are considered as promising revenue-adding services, and multicast is proven to be a good supplier to support these applications for its reduced consumption of network bandwidth. Generally there are two approaches to implement optical layer multicast. One is space-domain multicast using space-splitter which is low cost but has wavelength continuity constraint, the other is frequency-domain multicast using wavelength converter which resolves the wavelength continuity but with high costs. A new multicasting node which adopts both space-domain multicast and frequency-domain multicast is recently discussed. In this paper we present an experimental demonstration of the new multicasting node architecture based on space splitters and wavelength converters, measurements to characterize such a node are provided.

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Hao He, Yikai Su, Peigang Hu, and Weisheng Hu "Experimental characterization of a new multicasting node architecture based on space splitters and wavelength converters", Proc. SPIE 6022, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications III, 60221Q (5 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.636349

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