White Papers

White Papers

Detailed discussions of technologies and applications.
5G Optics – Mobile Optical Pluggables (en) (pdf, 2.09 MB)
Brown-Field Upgrades to 40 G Bit Rates (en) (pdf, 4.9 MB)
Building a Fully Flexible Optical Layer with Next-Generation ROADMs (en) (pdf, 542.4 KB)
Choosing the Right Packet Optical Network (en) (pdf, 598.08 KB)
Critical Issues for the Flexible Spectrum Network (en) (pdf, 870.21 KB)
Efficiently Supporting Aggressive Network Capacity Growth in Next-Generation ROADM Networks (en) (pdf, 1.06 MB)
Introducing the 6th Generation of Optical Networking – Carrier and Spatial Division Multiplexing (CSDM) (en) (pdf, 185.12 KB)
The Benefits of Multirate Coherent Transponders in CFP2 Form Factor (en) (pdf, 180.81 KB)
The Self-Aware Network—Leveraging Overlapping Network Layer Capabilities for Higher Performance and Lower Costs (en) (pdf, 287.99 KB)
Today’s Multi-Layered Networks (en) (pdf, 594.06 KB)