OPTICAL BYPASSING USING A WDM-GRIDCONNECT PATCHWORK

In this letter, the properties of transparent wavelength routed transp ort networks are analyzed which are based on a wavelength-divsion mult iplexing (WDM)-Gridconnect patchwork and compared to networks built on a conventional fiber infrastructure. The patchwork represents an exam ple of a partitioned wavelength routed fiber-optic transport network u sing optical bypassing. The cumulative transit traffic and path length statistics are calculated. Based on these results, recommendations fo r the transparent network partition size and the number of wavelengths are given.