Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Study on the Implementation of Optical Transparent Transport Networks in the European Environment—Results of the Research Project COST 239

  • Published:
Photonic Network Communications Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Cost Telecommunication General Information. Office for Official Publications of the European Community (1996).

  2. P. Batchelor, et al., Ultra High Capacity Optical Transmission Networks: Final Report of Action COST 239, Zagreb: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (1999).

  3. E. Iannone, F. Matera, A. Mecozzi, M. Settembre, Nonlinear Optical Communication Networks (Wiley & Son, 1998).

  4. F. Favre, D. Le Guen, M. Moulinard, 20 Gbit/s soliton transmission over 19Mm using sliding-frequency guiding filters, Electronics Letters, vol. 31, (1995), pp. 991–992.

    Google Scholar 

  5. F. Matera, et al., Impact of polarization mode dispersion in field demonstrations of 40 Gbit/s soliton transmission over 500 km, Electronics Letters, vol. 31, (1995), pp. 991–992.

    Google Scholar 

  6. I. Morita, K. Tanaka, N. Edagawa, S. Yamamoto, M. Suzuki, 40 Gbit/s single-channel soliton transmission over 8600km using periodic dispersion compensation, Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no 19, (1998), pp. 1863–1865.

    Google Scholar 

  7. A. K. Srivastava, et al., Error free Transmission of 64 WDM 10 Gb/s channels over 520km of truewave fiber, Proceedings of ECOC '98, Madrid, Spain, vol. 1, (20–24 September 1998), pp. 265–266.

    Google Scholar 

  8. A. K. Srivastava, Wide Bandwidth High Capacity Systems, Proceedings of OFC'99, San Diego, USA, Volume Friday, session C4, (21–26 February 1999).

  9. F. Matera, M. Settembre, Comparison of the performance of optically amplified transmission systems, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 14, (1996), pp. 1–12.

    Google Scholar 

  10. R. Lebref, A. Ciani, F. Matera, M. Tamburrini, Numerical model for the study of the behavior of erbium amplifier for the evaluation of the transmission performance of optical WDM systems. In press for Fiber and Integrated Optics.

  11. M. Joindot, et al., Reduction of the cross-phase modulation impairment in wavelength division multipled systems with dispersion management, Proceedings of CLEO/QELS99, Baltimore, CWH4, (23–28 May 1999).

  12. M. C. Sinclair, Improved model for European international telephonic traffic, Electronics Letters, vol. 30, no. 18, (1994), pp. 1468–1470.

    Google Scholar 

  13. M. J. O'Mahony, D. Simeonidou, A. Yu, J. Zhou, Design of a European optical network, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 13, no. 5, (1995), pp. 817–828.

    Google Scholar 

  14. F. Tillerot, D. R. Hjelme, A. Rùyset, Optical nodes dimensioning for a Pan-European optical backbone, Invited paper Book of abstracts at the COST 240 Workshop on Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Components for Optical Networks, Prague, Czech Republic, (October 27–29, 1997), pp. 1:1-7.

  15. N. Wauters, P. Demeester, Design of the optical path layer in multiwavelength cross-connected networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 14, no. 5, (1996), pp. 881–892.

    Google Scholar 

  16. H. A. Jäger, The WDM-gridconnect as a transport structure, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 7, no. 5, (1995), pp. 576–578.

    Google Scholar 

  17. H. A. Jäger, D. R. Hjelme, Trade offs between complexity and performance in optical transport network architectures, Proceedings of Workshop on All-optical Networks WAON 98, Zagreb, Croatia, (May 6–8, 1998), pp. 17–29.

  18. J. Späth, B. van Caenegem, Objective function for planning and evaluating a WDM-based photonic network, Proceedings of Workshop on All-optical Networks WAON 98, Zagreb, Croatia, (May 6–8, 1998), pp. 105–119.

  19. B. Mikac, R. Inkret, Availability comparison of two all-optical network approaches, in: Optical Network Design and Modeling, eds. H. R. van As and A. Jukan, IFIP TC6 Working Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, 24–25 February 1997, Vienna, Austria, (Chapman & Hall, London, 1998).

  20. H. Kobrinski, Cross-connection of wavelength-division-multiplexed high speed channels, Electronics Letters, vol. 23, (1987), pp. 975–977.

    Google Scholar 

  21. http://www.cordis.lu/cost/home.html

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. DTI, London, United Kingdom

    Peter Batchelor

  2. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

    Benedetto Daino

  3. cnlab AG, Rapperswil, Switzerland

    Peter Heinzmann

  4. SINTEF Electronics & Cybernetics, Trondheim, Norway

    Dag R. Hjelme

  5. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Robert Inkret

  6. Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

    Hubert A. Ja¨ger

  7. France Telecom CNET, Lannion, France

    Michel Joindot

  8. Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

    Anton Kuchar

  9. France Telecom CNET, Lannion, France

    Emile Le Coquil

  10. IKT at ETH, Zu¨rich, Switzerland

    Peter Leuthold

  11. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

    Giancarlo De Marchis

  12. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Matera

  13. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Branko Mikac

  14. Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany

    Hans-Peter Nolting

  15. IND at University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Jan Spa¨th

  16. France Telecom CNET, Lannion, France

    Fran¸ois Tillerot

  17. KPN-Orange, Brussels, Belgium

    Bart Van Caenegem

  18. G.T.S., Brussels, Belgium

    Nico Wauters

  19. Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany

    Carl Weinert

Authors
  1. Peter Batchelor
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Benedetto Daino
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Peter Heinzmann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Dag R. Hjelme
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Robert Inkret
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Hubert A. Ja¨ger
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Michel Joindot
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  8. Anton Kuchar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  9. Emile Le Coquil
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  10. Peter Leuthold
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  11. Giancarlo De Marchis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  12. Francesco Matera
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  13. Branko Mikac
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  14. Hans-Peter Nolting
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  15. Jan Spa¨th
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  16. Fran¸ois Tillerot
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  17. Bart Van Caenegem
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  18. Nico Wauters
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  19. Carl Weinert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

formerly Hermes Europe Railtel

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Batchelor, P., Daino, B., Heinzmann, P. et al. Study on the Implementation of Optical Transparent Transport Networks in the European Environment—Results of the Research Project COST 239. Photonic Network Communications 2, 15–32 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010050906938

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010050906938

Keywords

Search

Navigation