First Field Demonstration of Automatic WDM Optical Path Provisioning over Alien Access Links for Data Center Exchange

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Publication Date: 10/1/2023

Event: ECOC 2023

Reference: Tu.B.5.2: 1-4, 2023

Authors: Toru Mano, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Thomas Ferreira de Lima, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yue-kai Huang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Zehao Wang, Duke University; Wataru Ishida, NTT Software Innovation Center; Ezra Ip, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Andrea D’Amico, Politecnico di Torino; Seiji Okamoto, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Takeru Inoue, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Hideki Nishizawa, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Vittorio Curri, Politecnico di Torino; Gil Zussman, Columbia University; Daniel Kilper, CONNECT Centre; Tingjun Chen, Duke University; Ting Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Koji Asahi, NEC Corporation; Koichi Takasugi, NTT Network Innovation Labs

Abstract: We demonstrated under six minutes automatic provisioning of optical paths over field- deployed alien access links and WDM carrier links using commercial-grade ROADMs, whitebox mux-ponders, and multi-vendor transceivers. With channel probing, transfer learning, and Gaussian noise model, we achieved an estimation error (Q-factor) below 0.7 dB

Publication Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10484755