Abstract

Future optical core networks will transmit a high information capacity via a multichannel wavelength multiplex technique with channel bit rates of up to 10 Gb/s. The channels are switched in crossconnects with respect to space and frequency domain in the sense of a line switching. Wide areas of these networks could be designed optically transparent. In this case the channels have to be switched optically transparent via the crossconnects.

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