Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network
The All-Photonics Metro-Access Converged Network (APN) aims to achieve a flat and simple architecture that even covers access areas and represents the evolution of optical transport. Electrical processing functions such as exchange, multiplexing, and switching are uniformly placed at the border of t...
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| author | Shin Kaneko Kazuaki Honda Takuya Kanai Jun-ichi Kani Tomoaki Yoshida |
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| description | The All-Photonics Metro-Access Converged Network (APN) aims to achieve a flat and simple architecture that even covers access areas and represents the evolution of optical transport. Electrical processing functions such as exchange, multiplexing, and switching are uniformly placed at the border of the network segments, i.e., access, metro, and core networks, in current optical networks. These functions are placed in Data Centric Infrastructure (DCI) and accessed only when needed in the APN. By flexibly providing direct optical connections between user premises and/or DCI according to requests from users and services, the APN creates new types of use cases requiring end-to-end guaranteed wide-bandwidth and/or extremely low latency and jitter along with an information-computing platform. To provide optical paths originating from user terminals that launch client signals using protocols preferable to their applications, we propose a configuration for a novel optical edge node, the Photonic Gateway (GW), and a procedure based on remote control of user terminals to establish end-to-end optical paths that are independent of the client signal protocol. To verify these, we present results of a proof-of-concept experimental demonstration of establishing end-to-end optical paths. An auxiliary management control channel is employed in the protocol-independent access control method. We also describe future challenges facing the Photonic GW that must be addressed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-116b952dcd5c4cfeb2021bc3987dfca62023-04-13T23:00:11ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552023-01-011531910.1109/JPHOT.2023.326221510081319Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged NetworkShin Kaneko0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0139-8906Kazuaki Honda1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5656-1830Takuya Kanai2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3610-9596Jun-ichi Kani3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2742-2935Tomoaki Yoshida4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1673-5293NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka-shi, JapanNTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka-shi, JapanNTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka-shi, JapanNTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka-shi, JapanNTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Yokosuka-shi, JapanThe All-Photonics Metro-Access Converged Network (APN) aims to achieve a flat and simple architecture that even covers access areas and represents the evolution of optical transport. Electrical processing functions such as exchange, multiplexing, and switching are uniformly placed at the border of the network segments, i.e., access, metro, and core networks, in current optical networks. These functions are placed in Data Centric Infrastructure (DCI) and accessed only when needed in the APN. By flexibly providing direct optical connections between user premises and/or DCI according to requests from users and services, the APN creates new types of use cases requiring end-to-end guaranteed wide-bandwidth and/or extremely low latency and jitter along with an information-computing platform. To provide optical paths originating from user terminals that launch client signals using protocols preferable to their applications, we propose a configuration for a novel optical edge node, the Photonic Gateway (GW), and a procedure based on remote control of user terminals to establish end-to-end optical paths that are independent of the client signal protocol. To verify these, we present results of a proof-of-concept experimental demonstration of establishing end-to-end optical paths. An auxiliary management control channel is employed in the protocol-independent access control method. We also describe future challenges facing the Photonic GW that must be addressed.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10081319/All-photonics network (APN)optical edge nodeoptical-path provisioningremote user terminal (UT) control |
| spellingShingle | Shin Kaneko Kazuaki Honda Takuya Kanai Jun-ichi Kani Tomoaki Yoshida Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network IEEE Photonics Journal All-photonics network (APN) optical edge node optical-path provisioning remote user terminal (UT) control |
| title | Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network |
| title_full | Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network |
| title_fullStr | Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network |
| title_short | Photonic Gateway and Protocol-Independent End-to-End Optical-Connection Provisioning in All-Photonic Metro-Access Converged Network |
| title_sort | photonic gateway and protocol independent end to end optical connection provisioning in all photonic metro access converged network |
| topic | All-photonics network (APN) optical edge node optical-path provisioning remote user terminal (UT) control |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10081319/ |
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