A Protection Scheme with Double Optical Trees in Active Optical Access Network

Abstract We study a novel optical access network with active optical switches, called ActiON (Active Optical Network), as a next generation access network to replace PON (Passive Optical Network). In this paper, we focus on the reliability of optical access networks and propose a protection scheme for ActiON by connecting two ActiON trees. Finally we discuss the availability and the component cost of the proposed architecture.

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