Ethernet over WDM: Optimization for resilience and scalability

摘要

The emerging Ethernet technologies deployed in Metro networks provide services based on pure Ethernet. Low cost optical Ethernet interfaces are used to interconnect different sites. Then, the use of Wavelength Division Multiplexing technology with Optical Ethernet is clearly the next step in building cost efficient Metro networks. In this paper we propose a novel architecture and configuration methods that make Metro Ethernet better scale to larger traffic and to covering larger areas that consist of more nodes promising significantly lower costs.