Topics in optical communications - STARGATE: The next evolutionary step toward unleashing the potential of WDM EPONs

Martin Maier, Martin Herzog, Martin Reisslein

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Abstract

WDM EPONs are rapidly becoming mature. In this article we briefly review the state of the art of cost reduction, colorless ONUs, and WDM PONs. We then lift the veil of future WDM EPONs, and elaborate on evolutionary costeffective upgrades of WDM EPONs and their all-optical WDM integration with Ethernetbased metropolitan area networks to provide transparent connections at the wavelength and sub-wavelength granularity on demand between ONUs residing in different WDM EPONs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)50-56
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Communications Magazine
Volume45
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2007

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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