Wavelength cross connect device, multiband transmission system, and multiband transmission method
AssigneeNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
InventorsHiroki Kawahara, Takeshi Seki, Sachio Suda, Kohei Saito
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Abstract
A wavelength cross-connect device is formed by connecting a plurality of wavelength cross-connect devices in a ring-like form with WDM networks for each band of a plurality of bands on the input/output sides of the wavelength cross-connect devices, and includes a link wavelength allocation control unit. The link wavelength allocation control unit performs control to set different optical paths through which optical signals of the same wavelength are transmitted in the same zone between wavelength cross-connect devices, in the WDM networks of different bands in the same zone.
Claims8
A multiband transmission system that includes a plurality of wavelength cross-connect devices, each of the plurality of the wavelength cross-connect devices being configured to perform a relay process of amplifying, with an optical amplifier, optical signals in respective wavelength bands provided by demultiplexing multiple wavelength signal light into different wavelength bands for each path, changing paths with a wavelength selective switch (WSS), and outputting the optical signals to an output side path to respective output-side paths, the multiple wavelength signal light being provided by multiplexing respective optical signals in different wavelength bands and transmitted in multiple bands through an optical transmission line including at least one optical fiber, the WSS performing optical signal processing of outputting a combined output of a plurality of inputs from one input end through one output end on an outside side after branching and outputting inputs from one input end through one output end on an input side, the wavelength cross-connect device including:
- a wavelength cross-connect (WXC) unit that includes the optical amplifier and the WSS and that is configured to perform the relay process on an optical signal in a predetermined specific wavelength band among the different wavelength bands;
- an input-side conversion unit, including circuitry, that is disposed at an input side of the WXC unit and that is configured to convert a first optical signal in a wavelength band other than the specific wavelength band into a second optical signal in the specific wavelength band;
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- an output-side conversion unit, including circuitry, that is disposed at an output side of the WXC unit and that is configured to convert the second optical signal into the first optical signal,
- wherein an optical signal in the specific wavelength band that has been input directly from the input side is directly output after the relay process at the WXC unit,
- the multiband transmission system being formed by the plurality of the wavelength cross-connect devices,
- the plurality of the wavelength cross-connect devices being connected in a ring-like form with wavelength division multiplex (WDM) networks in respective bands of a plurality of bands on input and output sides of the wavelength cross-connect devices, the multiband transmission system comprising:
- a link wavelength allocation control unit, comprising circuitry, that is configured to:
- allocate a predetermined wavelength to a WDM network in each of the bands between the wavelength cross-connect devices connected in the ring-like form, and
- set an optical path through which an optical signal of the allocated wavelength is transmitted between an input-side path and an output-side path via at least one of the wavelength cross-connect devices,
- wherein the link wavelength allocation control unit is configured to set different optical paths through which optical signals of the same wavelength are transmitted in a same zone between wavelength cross-connect devices, in WDM networks in different bands in the same zone.
A multiband transmission method implemented in a multiband transmission system that includes a plurality of wavelength cross-connect devices, the plurality of the wavelength cross-connect devices being connected in a ring-like form with WDM networks in respective bands of a plurality of bands on input and output sides of the wavelength cross-connect devices, wherein:
- the wavelength cross-connect device is configured to perform a relay process of amplifying, with an optical amplifier, optical signals in respective wavelength bands provided by demultiplexing multiple wavelength signal light into different wavelength bands for each path, changing paths with a wavelength selective switch (WSS), and outputting the optical signals to an output side path to respective output-side paths, the multiple wavelength signal light being provided by multiplexing respective optical signals in different wavelength bands and transmitted in multiple bands through an optical transmission line including at least one optical fiber, the WSS performing optical signal processing of outputting a combined output of a plurality of inputs from one input end through one output end on an outside side after branching and outputting inputs from one input end through one output end on an input side;
- the wavelength cross-connect device includes:
- a wavelength cross-connect (WXC) unit that includes the optical amplifier and the WSS and that is configured to perform the relay process on an optical signal in a predetermined specific wavelength band among the different wavelength bands;
- an input-side conversion unit, including circuitry, that is disposed at an input side of the WXC unit and that is configured to convert a first optical signal in a wavelength band other than the specific wavelength band into a second optical signal in the specific wavelength band;
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- an output-side conversion unit, including circuitry, that is disposed at an output side of the WXC unit and that is configured to convert the second optical signal into the first optical signal;
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- an optical signal in the specific wavelength band that has been input directly from the input side is directly output after the relay process at the WXC unit;
- the method comprising:
- allocating a predetermined wavelength to a WDM network in each of the bands between the wavelength cross-connect devices connected in the ring-like form;
- setting an optical path through which an optical signal of the allocated wavelength is transmitted between an input-side path and an output-side path via at least one of the wavelength cross-connect devices;
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- setting different optical paths through which optical signals of a same wavelength are transmitted in a same zone between the wavelength cross-connect devices, in WDM networks in different bands in the same zone.
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