Introduction to the ECOC 2021 Special Issue

Jean-Pierre Hamaide, Christian Lerminiaux, Philippe Chanclou, and Pierre Sillard

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), ECOC1-ECOC1 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Toward higher-radix switches with co-packaged optics for improved network locality in data center and HPC networks [Invited]

Pavlos Maniotis, Laurent Schares, Daniel M. Kuchta, and Bengi Karacali

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C1-C10 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Operator view on optical transport network automation in a multi-vendor context [Invited]

Esther Le Rouzic, Olivier Renais, Julien Meuric, Thierry Marcot, Christophe Betoule, Gilles Thouenon, Ahmed Triki, Maxime Laye, Nicolas Pelloquin, Yannick Lagadec, Emmanuelle Delfour, Matthias Ermel, Jens Dost, and Stefan Türk

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C11-C22 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Advances in SDN control and telemetry for beyond 100G disaggregated optical networks [Invited]

Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Ricard Vilalta, Raul Muñoz, Alfredo González-Muñiz, Oscar González de Dios, and Juan-Pedro Fernández-Palacios

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C23-C37 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Disaggregation and cloudification of metropolitan area networks: enabling technologies and impact on architecture, cost, and power consumption [Invited]

Marco Quagliotti, Laura Serra, Annachiara Pagano, Panos Groumas, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, and Hercules Avramopoulos

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C38-C49 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Benefits of quasi-continuous symbol rate tunability in links constrained by ROADM filtering

Steven Searcy, Thomas Richter, Sergey Burtsev, and Sorin Tibuleac

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C50-C56 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical access evolutions towards SDN and disaggregated hardware: an operator perspective [Invited]

Gaël Simon, Philippe Chanclou, Minqi Wang, Daniel Abgrall, and David Minodier

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C57-C69 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

Deep learning-based real-time analysis of lightpath optical constellations [Invited]

M. Ruiz, D. Sequeira, and L. Velasco

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C70-C81 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

FLCS-PON—an opportunistic 100 Gbit/s flexible PON prototype with probabilistic shaping and soft-input FEC: operator trial and ODN case studies

Robert Borkowski, Yannick Lefevre, Amitkumar Mahadevan, Doutje van Veen, Michael Straub, Ralph Kaptur, Björn Czerwinski, Bruno Cornaglia, Vincent Houtsma, Werner Coomans, René Bonk, and Jochen Maes

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C82-C91 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF

GNPy model of the physical layer for open and disaggregated optical networking [Invited]

Vittorio Curri

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 14(6), C92-C104 (2022)  View: HTML | PDF