Optical Ring Architecture Performance Evaluation using Ordinary Receiver

Abstract

Wavelength division multiplexing is an accepted technique to exploit the fiber bandwidth in metro network. Designing innovative architectures for metro network often means finding cost effective combinations of electronic and optic technologies and new network paradigms suited for constraints caused by available photonic components and subsystems. The three different and architectures included in this project the bulk of raw data in the optic domain while the implementation of the complex network formation is in the electronic domain. All the three ringO architectures perform λ monitoring. The basic ringO architecture is based on WDM fiber ring. The three ring architectures are designed and simulated using OptSim 5.3 software.