OPTICAL NETWORK NODE DEVICE

• US 20080131130A1
• Filed: 11/29/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Sang Soo, KIM, Kwangjoon, CHANG, Sun Hyok, CHUNG, Hwan Seok
• Application Number:
  US11/947,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20080131130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 398/83
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0206 Express channels arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0212 using optical switches or wavelength selective switches [WSS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0217 Multi-degree architectures, e.g. having a connection degree greater than two
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/022 For interconnection of WDM optical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 14/0221 Power control, e.g. to keep the total optical power constant
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0005 Switch and router aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2011/0015 using splitting combining
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2011/0016 using wavelength multiplexing or demultiplexing

Abstract

Provided is an optical network node device. According to the optical network node device, a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) based or a blocker based 4-terminals ROADM can be used in a node of at least degree 3, a proceeding direction of a wavelength channel can be changed in an electrical cross connect switch, and transmission in a unit smaller than a wavelength channel can be cross connected, dropped, and added, or transmission capacity can be redistributed in the electrical cross connect switch. Accordingly, efficient transmission in a small capacity and large capacity transmission of a wavelength channel can be performed simultaneously, and thus an optical network can be effectively managed. Also, since the node of at least degree 3 uses the PLC based or a blocker based reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer (ROADM), the node of at least degree 3 can use the same ROADM module as a node of degree 2. Accordingly, the optical network node device has an advantage in manufacturing and managing a node.

Claims

1. An optical network node device, comprising:

a plurality of 4-terminals ROADM, which controls a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) channel to pass through, drop, or pass through after adding an optically converted signal to the WDM channel;

optical transceivers, which photoelectrically convert a signal dropped from a corresponding ROADM or optically convert an electric signal transmitted to a corresponding ROADM; and

an electrical cross connect switch, which switches the signal that is photoelectrically converted by the optical transceiver to one of optical transceivers corresponding to a direction that the signal will pass through, by redistributing transmission capacity and cross connecting the signal so that the signal is transmitted to a corresponding ROADM.

2. The optical network node device of claim 1, wherein the ROADM is a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) based or a blocker based ROADM.

3. The optical network node device of claim 2, wherein the ROADM can add or drop the WDM channel in a wavelength channel unit.

4. The optical network node device of claim 1, wherein the number of the ROADM is at least 3.

5. The optical network node device of claim 1, wherein an output wavelength of the electric signal that is optically converted by the optical transceiver is pre-determined or tunable.

6. The optical network node device of claim 1, wherein the electrical cross connect switch performs aggregation and grooming of the photoelectrically converted signal, reproduction of a transmission signal, and reconfiguration and redistribution of WDM channel.

7. The optical network node device of claim 1, wherein the ROADM controls a WDM channel or a signal to pass through, drop, or pass through after adding the WDM channel or the signal, by grasping a path that the WDM channel or the signal is to be transmitted according to information included in the WDM channel or the signal.

8. An optical network node device, comprising:

a plurality of 4-terminals ROADM, which controls a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) channel to pass through, drop, or pass through after adding a part of an optically converted signal to the WDM channel;

optical transceivers, which photoelectrically convert a part of a signal dropped from a corresponding ROADM or optically convert an electric signal transmitted to a corresponding ROADM; and

an electrical cross connect switch, which switches the signal that is photoelectrically converted by the optical transceiver to one of optical transceivers corresponding to a direction that the signal will pass through, by redistributing transmission capacity and cross connecting the signal so that the signal is transmitted to a corresponding ROADM,

wherein the ROADM outputs another part of the signal, excluding the part of the dropped signal and the part of the added signal, to outside of the optical network node device.

9. The optical network node device of claim 8, wherein the ROADM is a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) based or a blocker based ROADM.

10. The optical network node device of claim 9, wherein the ROADM can add or drop the WDM channel in a wavelength channel unit.

11. The optical network node device of claim 8, wherein the number of the ROADM is at least 3.

12. The optical network node device of claim 8, wherein an output wavelength of the electric signal that is optically converted by the optical transceiver is pre-determined or tunable.

13. The optical network node device of claim 8, wherein the electrical cross connect switch performs aggregation and grooming of the photoelectrically converted signal, reproduction of a transmission signal, and reconfiguration and redistribution of WDM channel.

14. The optical network node device of claim 8, wherein the ROADM controls a WDM channel or a signal to pass through, drop, or pass through after adding the WDM channel or the signal, by grasping a path that the WDM channel or the signal is to be transmitted according to information included in the WDM channel or the signal.