Routing of 100 Gb/s words in a packet-switched optical networking demonstration (POND) node

Author

Toliver, Paul ; Glesk, Ivan ; Runser, Robert J. ; Deng, Kung-Li ; Yu, Ben Y. ; Prucnal, PAul R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

16

Issue

12

fYear

1998

fDate

12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2169

Lastpage

2180

Abstract

This paper presents the design and experimental results of an optical packet-switching testbed capable of performing message routing with single wavelength time division multiplexed (TDM) packet bit rates as high as 100 Gb/s. The physical topology of the packet-switched optical networking demonstration (POND) node is based on an eight-node ShuffleNet architecture. The key enabling technologies required to implement the node such as ultrafast packet generation, high-speed packet demultiplexing, and efficient packet routing schemes are described in detail. The routing approach taken is a hybrid implementation in which the packet data is maintained purely in the optical domain from source to destination whereas control information is read from the packet header at each node and converted to the electrical domain for an efficient means of implementing routing control. The technologies developed for the interconnection network presented in this paper can be applied to larger metropolitan and wide area networks as well

Keywords

demultiplexing; digital communication; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; wide area networks; 100 Gbit/s; MAN; POND node; WAN; eight-node ShuffleNet architecture; high-speed packet demultiplexing; hybrid implementation; interconnection network; message routing; metropolitan networks; optical packet-switching testbed; packet routing schemes; packet-switched optical networking demonstration node; single wavelength TDM packet bit rates; time division multiplexing; ultrafast packet generation; wide area networks; High speed optical techniques; Optical control; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Performance evaluation; Routing; Testing; Time division multiplexing; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/50.736583

Filename

736583