BUILDING A COST EFFECTIVE, AFFORDABLE, & SCALABLE ROADM BASED OPTICAL NETWORK
Background
ROADMs are a disruptive technology that have and will continue to benefit the industry in many ways. ROADM technology allows service providers network flexibility without major up front planning or future reconstruction of the network to accommodate unforeseen service demand. In addition, ROADM technology holds a very promising future in the realization of all optical switching and protection.
ROADMs do still have one inhibitor to ubiquitous deployment in all networks however. This inhibitor is up front cost.