Optical communication apparatus, optical communication system and optical communication method

Abstract

An optical communication device include: an optical switch configured to output an optical signal input from one transmission line to another transmission line among the plurality of transmission lines; a wavelength management control unit configured to allocate a wavelength, a time, a polarized wave, a mode, a code, a frequency, a core, a core wire, a wavelength that is a combination thereof, or the like to a subscriber device by using a control signal in accordance with the subscriber device and a transfer destination on a path to a communication destination, and transmits the control signal to the subscriber device by using a carrier different from a carrier to which the wavelength or the like is allocated; and an optical switch control unit configured to control the optical switch such that the input optical signal is output to the another transmission line corresponding to the communication destination.

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