Abstract:
The present disclosure describes system and methods for network planning. The systems and methods can incorporate network traffic demands, availability requirements, latency, physical infrastructure and networking device capability, and detailed cost structures to calculate a network design with minimum or reduced cost compared to conventional methods. In some implementations, the method include providing an initial, deterministic set of failures, and then successively performing a network optimization and a network availability simulation to determine which failures most impact the performance of the network model. The high impact failures can then be provided back into the system, which generates an improved network design while still maintaining minimum cost.
Abstract:
A method (400) for overlapping spectrum amplification includes receiving an optical signal (102) and splitting the optical signal into a first split signal (102a) having a first wavelength band (λ a ) and a second split signal (102b) having a second wavelength band (λ b ). The splitting results in a band gap (G) between the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band. The method further includes delaying the first split signal by a threshold period of time relative to the second split signal and combining the first split signal and the second split signal, resulting in a combined signal (104) having the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band without the band gap therebetween. The path difference between the first split signal along the first signal path (P1) and the second split signal along the second signal path (P2) is within a threshold multipath interference compensation range.
Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for improving spectral efficiency of a communication system. The communication system can include a transmitter, a receiver and a communication link for communicating data between the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter can employ a multi-carrier technique to transmit data to the receiver. The transmitter can generate a plurality of carrier signals using a receiver-side comb generator, one of which is sent to the transmitter as a pilot carrier signal combined with modulated carrier signals over an optical link. At the receiver the receiver-side comb generator uses the pilot carrier signal to generate a plurality of receiver-side carrier signals, which are used for detecting the modulated carrier signals. As the phase noise in the modulated carrier signals and the phase noise in the receiver-side carrier signals have the same characteristics, the phase noise is cancelled at the receiver, resulting in improved detection.
Abstract:
An optical add-drop multiplexer (140) including a first filter (142, 420) filtering a first band (B E , C) of wavelengths (λ Ε , λ C ) of a communication spectrum for a first communication segment (105a) and a second filter (142, 430) filtering a second band (B A , L) of wavelengths (λ Α , λ L ) of the communication spectrum for a second communication segment (105b). The second band of wavelengths overlaps the first band of wavelengths in an overlap band (B O ) of wavelengths (λ O ). The overlap band may have a variable size. The first band of wavelengths includes a first fraction of the overlap band of wavelengths for the first communication segment and the second band of wavelengths includes a remaining fraction the overlap band of wavelengths for the second communication segment.