Introduction to the ECOC 2020 Special Issue

Peter Van Daele, Ton Koonen, Johan Bauwelinck, and Oded Raz

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), ECOC1-ECOC1 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Experimental evaluation of control and monitoring protocols for optical SDN networks and equipment [Invited Tutorial]

Ricard Vilalta, Carlos Manso, Noboru Yoshikane, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Takehiro Tsuritani, Itsuro Morita, and Raul Muñoz

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D1-D12 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

High-port-count optical circuit switches for intra-datacenter networks [Invited Tutorial]

Yojiro Mori and Ken-Ichi Sato

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D43-D52 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Achieving high budget classes in the downstream link of 50G-PON

Ricardo Rosales, Ivan Cano, Derek Nesset, Romain Brenot, Natalia Dubrovina, Elena Durán-Valdeiglesias, and Helene Debregeas

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D13-D21 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Journey toward software-defined passive optical networks with multi-PON technology: an industry view [Invited]

Julio Montalvo, Jose Torrijos, Daniel Cortes, Rajesh Chundury, and Matt St. Peter

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D22-D31 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical access network interfaces for 5G and beyond [Invited]

Fabienne Saliou, Philippe Chanclou, Luiz Anet Neto, Gael Simon, Jeremy Potet, Mathilde Gay, Laurent Bramerie, and Helene Debregeas

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D32-D42 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]

Robin Matzner, Daniel Semrau, Ruijie Luo, Georgios Zervas, and Polina Bayvel

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D53-D67 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

NFV orchestration over disaggregated metro optical networks with end-to-end multi-layer slicing enabling crowdsourced live video streaming

Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Rodrigo Stange Tessinari, Ramon Casellas, Miquel Garrich, Emilio Hugues-Salas, Óscar González de Dios, Lourdes Luque, Alessio Giorgetti, Andrea Sgambelluri, Filippo Cugini, Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro, Roberto Morro, Kristan Farrow, Adrian Wonfor, Mayur Channegowda, Pablo Pavón-Mariño, Andrew Lord, Reza Nejabati, and Dimitra Simeonidou

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D68-D79 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancing the flexibility and functionality of SCNs: demonstration of evolution toward any-core-access, nondirectional, and contentionless spatial channel cross-connects [Invited]

Masahiko Jinno, Tsubasa Ishikawa, Takahiro Kodama, Hiroshi Hasegawa, and Suresh Subramaniam

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 13(8), D80-D92 (2021)  View: HTML | PDF