ADM Add/Drop Multiplexer

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ASE Amplified Spontaneous Emission

ASON Automatically Switched Optical Network

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AWG Arrayed Waveguide Grating

BFS Breadth First Search

BLSR Bi-directional Line-Switched Ring

CapEx Capital Expenditure

CDS Connected Dominating Set

CSP Constrained Shortest Path

dB Decibel

DCE Dynamic Channel Equalizer

DCF Dispersion Compensating Fiber

DSE Dynamic Spectral Equalizer

EDC Electronic Dispersion Compensation

EDFA Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier

E-NNI External Network-Network Interface

FEC Forward Error Correction

FWM Four-Wave Mixing

Gb/s Gigabit per second (10 ⁹ bits per second)

GC Grooming Connection

GHz Gigahertz

GMPLS Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

I-NNI Internal Network-Network Interface

IP Internet Protocol

ITU International Telecommunication Union

JET Just Enough Time

JIT Just In Time

km kilometer

MAC Media Access Control

Mb/s Megabit per second (10 ⁶ bits per second)

MCP Multi-Constrained Path

MEMS Micro-electro-mechanical System

MLSE Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation

ms millisecond

NDSF Non Dispersion-Shifted Fiber

NF Noise Figure

nm nanometer

NNI Network-Network Interface

NRZ Non-Return-to-Zero

NZ-DSF Non-Zero Dispersion-Shifted Fiber

OADM Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer

OADM-MD Multi-Degree Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer

OAM Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

OBS Optical Burst Switching

OC Optical Carrier

OChSPRing Optical-Channel Shared Protection Ring

O-E-O Optical-Electrical-Optical

OFS Optical Flow Switching

OIF Optical Internetworking Forum

OMS-SPRing Optical Multiplex Section Shared Protection Ring

OOK-On-Off Keying

OpEx Operational Expenditure

OPM Optical Performance Monitor

OPS Optical Packet Switching

OSC Optical Supervisory Channel

OSNR Optical-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio

OTN Optical Transport Network

OTU Optical channel Transport Unit

OXC Optical Cross-Connect

PCE Path Computation Element

PDL Polarization Dependent Loss

PIC Photonic Integrated Circuit

PMD Polarization-Mode Dispersion

PON Passive Optical Network

ps picosecond (10- ¹² second)

RFC Request for Comments

RFI Request for Information

RFP Request for Proposal

ROADM Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer

RSP Restricted Shortest Path

RWA Routing and Wavelength Assignment

RZ Return-to-Zero

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SLA Service Level Agreement

SONET Synchronous Optical Network

SPDP Shortest Pair of Disjoint Paths

SPM Self-Phase Modulation

SPRing Shared Protection Ring

SRG Shared Risk Group

SRLB Selective Randomized Load Balancing

SRLG Shared Risk...