A programmable Ethernet transport Packetponder using common compact form factor pluggable tunable transceivers to support novel DWDM architectures

Raulin, Julie; Davey, Gawen; Verbishchuk, Yulia; Sreenan, Cormac J.; Gunning, Fatima C. Garcia

A programmable Ethernet transport Packetponder using common compact form factor pluggable tunable transceivers to support novel DWDM architectures

Files

RAULIN_OFC_final_2023.pdf(2.05 MB)

Accepted version

Date

2023-03-07

Authors

Raulin, Julie

Davey, Gawen

Verbishchuk, Yulia

Sreenan, Cormac J.

Gunning, Fatima C. Garcia

Publisher

IEEE

Published Version

https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116438

Abstract

We introduce a packetponder comprising a programmable packet switch with P4 ASIC containing a mixture of “grey” and tunable DWDM pluggable transceivers that, combined with ROADMs, introduces novel possibilities for Ethernet transport architectures.

Keywords

Optical networking , Packetponder , Ethernet transport , Network orchestration , Optical fiber communication

Citation

Raulin, J., Davey, G., Verbishchuk, Y., Jeffries, A., Sreenan, C.J. and Garcia Gunning, F.C. (2023) ‘A programmable Ethernet transport Packetponder using common compact form factor pluggable tunable transceivers to support novel DWDM architectures’, in 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC). San Diego, CA, USA: IEEE, pp. 1–3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.23919/OFC49934.2023.10116438