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Fiber Optic Networking
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ALSO CALLED: Fibre, Fiber Optics, and Optical Networking
DEFINITION: A reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) is a device that can add, block, pass or redirect modulated infrared (IR) and visible light beams of various wavelengths in a fiber optic network. ROADMs are used in systems that employ wavelength division multiplexing. Before the development of optical multiplexing
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WHITE PAPER:
Advances in optical networking are offering service providers the opportunity to re-engineer their core networks over the next several years.
Posted: 08 Nov 2001 | Published: 01 Nov 2001
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FIBER OPTIC NETWORKING DEFINITION (continued): … devices such as ROADMs, signal routing in fiber optic networks was done by converting the IR or visible beams to electrical signals and routing those signals using conventional electronic switches. The rerouted electrical signals were then converted back into IR or visible beams. In a conventional ROADM, switching is accomplished without optical-to-electrical or electrical-to-optical conversion using three operations called add, drop and cut-through. An outgoing IR or visible beam can be generated (the add operation) or an incoming beam terminated (the drop operation). A beam …
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