A 100-Gb/s throughput ATM switch MCM with a 320-channel parallel optical I/O interface

Author

Kawano, Ryusuke ; Yamanaka, Naoaki ; Oki, Eiji ; Yasukawa, Seisho ; Okazaki, Katsuhiko ; Ohki, Akira ; Usui, Mitsuo ; Sato, Nobuo ; Katsura, Kosuke ; Ando, Yasuhiro ; Kagawa, Toshiaki ; Hikita, Makoto

Author_Institution

NTT Network Syst. Dev. Center, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

753

Lastpage

758

Abstract

For an ATM switch system, we have developed a 100 Gb/s I/O throughput optical I/O interface ATM switch multichip module (MCM) that has 320-ch optical I/O ports. This MCM is fabricated using ceramic (MCM-C) technology and very-small highly-parallel O/E and E/O optical converters. It uses 0.25 μm CMOS ATM switch LSIs and has a total I/O throughput of up to 160 Gb/s. A prototype module with total I/O throughput of 100 Gb/s has been partially assembled using 8 optical I/O interface blocks, each composed of a 40-ch O/E converter and a 40-ch E/O converter; the data rate per channel is from DC to 700 Mb/s. Using this module we developed an optical I/O interface ATM switch system and confirmed the operation of the optical interface

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; ceramic packaging; large scale integration; multichip modules; multimedia communication; switching circuits; 0.25 micron; 100 Gbit/s; ATM switch; CMOS; MCM; ceramic technology; data rate; highly-parallel E/O converters; highly-parallel O/E converters; multimedia services; parallel optical I/O interface; total I/O throughput; Assembly; Asynchronous transfer mode; High speed optical techniques; Laboratories; Large scale integration; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Prototypes; Switching systems; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 1999. 1999 Proceedings. 49th

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

0569-5503

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5231-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.1999.776266

Filename

776266