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- 1 2 "Interfaces for Optical Transport Network (OTN)”, ITU-T G.709/Y.1331
- ↑ "Forward error correction for high bit-rate DWDM submarine systems", ITU-T G.975.1
- ↑ Virgilio Puglia, Olga Zadedyurina, “optical transport networks: from all-optical to digital”, IEEE,31 August 2009 ISBN 978-92-61-12891-3
- ↑ D. Ventorini, E. Moura, L. Paraschis, O. Gerstel, M. Silva, K. Wollenweber, A.J. Silverio, P.P. Henrique, L.A.C. Silva "Demonstration and evaluation of IP-over-DWDM networking as "alien-wavelength" over existing carrier DWDM infrastructure", Optical Fiber communication/ National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Issue , 24–28 February 2008 Page(s):1 – 6
- ↑ Amplified multichannel DWDM applications with single channel optical interfaces", ITU-T G.698.2
