Title:
OPTICAL NETWORK, NETWORK MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2022/054536
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
In a network using MCF, in order to provide a technology which enables a standby system path to be easily constructed, this optical network comprises: an active system path which is connected by means of a first multi-core optical fiber, and is a path between a transmission node that transmits an optical signal and a reception node that receives the optical signal; and the standby system path which is composed by means of a plurality of second multi-core optical fibers, which are different from the first multi-core optical fiber, and is a path switchable from the active system path between the transmission node and the reception node, wherein cores, which are switching destinations of the plurality of cores of the first multi-core optical fiber, are disposed at a plurality of respective unused cores of the second multi-core optical fibers.
Inventors:
YANAGIMACHI SHIGEYUKI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2021/030524
Publication Date:
March 17, 2022
Filing Date:
August 20, 2021
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NEC CORP (JP)
International Classes:
H04J14/00; H04B10/032; H04B10/27
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2010016819A1 | 2010-02-11 |
Foreign References:
| JP2014165595A | 2014-09-08 | |||
| JP2016111480A | 2016-06-20 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
KITAJIMA Hiroshi et al. (JP)
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