Core Optical Networking and Transmission Working Group
The Core Optical Networking and Transmission Working Group addresses the metro and long-haul segments of a transport network. “Optical” denotes the technologies and components in high-capacity telecommunications networks that provide the functionality of routing, grooming and restoration at the wavelength level, and for wavelength-based services provisioning. Wavelength-related (Layer 1) operations covered by this working group may include:
- Optical transport/transmission systems
- Optical network elements and sub-systems
- Optical circuit switching and wavelength switching
- Survivability, reliability, and security of optical networks
- Interfacing of the wavelength transport/switching elements to the control plane
- Optical communication components and devices
- Coding and forward error correction in optical systems
- Architecture of fiber, free-space, and hybrid optical networks
- Transparency and all-optical networks
- Signaling and information models for optical network control and management
- Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for dynamic optical networks
- Operations support systems for optical networks
- Modeling and simulation of optical networks
- Advanced optoelectronic circuits and optical signal processing
- Quantum optical communication
- Novel core transmission/communication technologies
Topics addressed by this working group include disruptive technologies that improve the energy efficiency of the equipment of the optical layer. The working group also explores techniques to achieve energy use optimization originating from the optical layer, which reduce the energy per bit of the overall network through proper optical network design.
All GreenTouch experts interested in any of these technology areas are invited to participate in the Core Optical Networking and Transmission Working Group – send a request to be included. Current projects are described here.