Optical Network Tomography over Live Production Network in Multi-Domain Environment

Publication Date: 10/1/2025

Event: ECOC 2025 – The 51st European Conference on Optical Communication

Reference: W.03.06.1:1-4, 2025

Authors: Takeo Sasai, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Kazuya Anazawa, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Dimitrii Briantcev, CONNECT Centre; Devika Dass, CONNECT Centre; Sumaiya Ali, CONNECT Centre; Giacomo Borraccini, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.; Yoshiharu Kobatake, NEC Corporation; Hiroyuki Ishihara, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Eoin Kenny, HEAnet; Garwin Liu, HEAnet; Atsushi Isomura, NTT Devices America Inc.; Toru Mano, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Takayuki Mizuno, NTT Devices America Inc.; Masanori Nakamura, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Hideki Nishizawa, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Yoshiaki Sone, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Etsushi Yamazaki, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Yoshiaki Kisaka, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Koichi Takasugi, NTT Network Innovation Labs; Koji Asahi, NEC Corporation; Marco Ruffini, CONNECT Centre; Daniel Kilper, CONNECT Centre

Abstract: We report the first trial of network tomography over a live network in a multi-domain environ­ment. We visualize end-to-end optical powers along multiple routes across multiple domains solely from a commercial B00G transponder, enabling performance bottleneck localization, power and routing opti­mization, and lightpath provisioning.

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