The First Testbed Demonstration of a Flexible Bandwidth Network with a Real-Time Adaptive Control Plane
- 1 January 2011
- proceedings article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
- p. Th.13.K.2
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ecoc.2011.th.13.k.2
Abstract
We demonstrate a flexible-bandwidth network testbed with a real-time adaptive control plane that adjusts modulation format and spectrum-positioning to maintain QoS and high spectral efficiency. A low-speed supervisory channel and FPGAs enable real-time impairment detection.Keywords
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