Abstract
One drawback to deploying wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) synchronous optical network (SONET) rings is the potentially large amount of equipment necessary for their deployment. Wavelength add-drop multiplexers potentially reduce the amount of required SONET terminal equipment by allowing individual wavelengths to optically bypass a node rather than being electronically terminated. We have quantified the maximum terminal-equipment savings attainable using wavelength add-drop for rings carrying uniform traffic and rings carrying distance-dependent traffic. The analysis makes use of both an enumerative methodology, and a "super-node" approximation technique that is applicable to arbitrary ring size and internode demand. In both the uniform and distance-dependent traffic scenarios, maximum terminal-equipment savings are shown to rapidly increase, over the region of interest, with both network size and internode demand. The value of wavelength add-drop is accordingly expected to grow rapidly in rings interconnecting numerous high-capacity nodes.
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