Chapter Nine: Machine learning and data science for low-margin optical networks

The ins and outs of margin optimization

Camille Delezoide; Petros Ramantanis; Patricia Layec    Smart Optical Fabric and Devices Lab, Nokia Bell Labs, Nozay, France

Abstract

The point of lowering optical network margins is to optimize the efficiency of current and future infrastructures. Margins are initially meant to guarantee a high reliability. Thus, the low-margin conundrum is to determine how and by how much margins may be reduced with as little impact as possible on the quality of service. Solving this inevitably requires to forecast then track the consequences of margin reductions. This cannot be achieved without large-scale collection of monitoring data and advanced ...

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