The future of transport in the metro area
Brandon Martin
lists.nanog at monmotha.net
Sat Aug 3 01:14:02 UTC 2019
On 8/2/19 4:10 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Now, the next step in all this that is starting to gain a bit of
> traction is "spectrum", i.e., rather than take a normal grey service
> from a Transport operator, have them deliver you a portion of the DWDM
> spectrum so that you can run as much bandwidth as you want over their
> network. Think of it as dark fibre, but lit...
How are they handling optical power balancing across amplifiers and
such? Do they just trust the customer to provide light at the power
levels agreed upon? Bulk attenuate the entire "spectrum" automatically?
Monitor and drop the whole lot if something is out of whack and
causing saturation or gain balance problems for others?
Or is this something you're only seeing at metro distances where
separate amplifiers are superfluous? I've inquired with a few metro
operators in my area about something like this, albeit a few years ago,
and I got a pretty hard "no way we'd ever do that" out of them
presumably for the reasons above.
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Brandon Martin
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