CAPEX Savings Enabled by Point-to-Multipoint Coherent Pluggable Optics Using Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing in Metro Aggregation Networks

Abstract

Acknowledging the predominantly hubbed traffic profile in the metro, we apply digital subcarrier multiplexing techniques to 400Gb/s coherent pluggable optics, enabling a point-to-multipoint architecture which shows TCO savings of 76% over a five-year period compared to a traditional architecture based on ROADMs and point-to-point transponder.