We experimentally demonstrate an SDN architecture for WDM VNTs to offload pass-through high bit-rate optical channels from overloaded ROADMs by provisioning spatial channels between the source and destination ROADM’s add-drop stages, and rerouting the optical channels.

Author/s
R. Munoz
C. Manso
F. Balasis
D. Soma
S. Beppu
R. Casellas
Ll. Gifre
R. Vilalta
R. Martínez
N. Yoshikane
T. Tsuritani
Published
OFC 2023, San Diego, USA