Advances in photonic packet switching: an overview

Author

Yao, Shun ; Mukherjee, Biswanath ; Dixit, Sudhir

Author_Institution

California Univ., CA, USA

Volume

38

Issue

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

94

Abstract

The current fast-growing Internet traffic is demanding more and more network capacity every day. The concept of wavelength-division multiplexing has provided us an opportunity to multiply network capacity. Current optical switching technologies allow us to rapidly deliver the enormous bandwidth of WDM networks. Photonic packet switching offers high-speed, data rate/format transparency, and configurability, which are some of the important characteristics needed in future networks supporting different forms of data. In this article we present some of the critical issues involved in designing and implementing all-optical packet-switched networks

Keywords

Internet; optical fibre networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; synchronisation; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; Internet traffic; WDM networks; all-optical packet-switched networks; bandwidth; configurability; data rate/format transparency; deflection routing; high-speed; network capacity; network design; optical switching technologies; photonic packet switching; synchronisation; wavelength-division multiplexing; All-optical networks; Bandwidth; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Packet switching; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.819900

Filename

819900