A centralized impairment-aware lightpath restoration scheme is experimentally demonstrated. Through the implementation of the QoT estimator module on FPGA technology, restoration times of 1.36 s are achieved for the high priority traffic class.
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Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Date of Conference: 6-10 March 2011