Experimental Validation of a Converged Metro Architecture for Transparent Mobile Front-/Back-Haul Traffic Delivery Using SDN-Enabled Sliceable Bitrate Variable Transceivers

We experimentally demonstrate transparent/dynamic delivery of mobile front-/back-haul in converged optical metro architecture, employing SDN-enabled S-BVTs based on adaptive multicarrier modulation. Network testbed experiments show successful BBU-RRU connectivity at distances up to 175km and capacities beyond 30Gb/s per flow.

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