A programmable Ethernet transport Packetponder using common compact form factor pluggable tunable transceivers to support novel DWDM architectures
Julie Raulin, Gawen Davey, Yuliya Verbishchuk, Alexander Jeffries, Cormac J. Sreenan, Fatima C. Garcia Gunning · 2023
We introduce a packetponder comprising a programmable packet switch with P4 ASIC containing a mixture of “grey” and tunable DWDM pluggable transceivers that, combined with ROADMs, introduces novel possibilities for Ethernet transport architec-tures.