Cost savings for low design margins in WDM elastic networks

• DOI: 10.1364/networks.2018.new3f.1
• Publication Date: 2018-06-28T16:22:24Z
• Authors: Jelena Pesic; Thierry Zami; Nicola Rossi
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We illustrate the cost savings during the 10-year life of a core WDM network enabled by elastic transponders when accounting for low design margins which are progressively growing with ageing, compared to end-of-life OSNR margins.