Design of Network Elements

• Reconfigurable network elements in the Optical Layer include OLXC’s, OADM’s, tunable lasers, etc.

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    all-optical subnetwork
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    Figure 1: An Optical Transport System (OTS) with OADM's

• Adaptation: functions at the edges that transform the incoming optical channel into the physical l to be transported through the subnetwork

• Connectivity: defines which pairs of edge Adaptation functions can be interconnected through the subnetwork

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