Title :
WDM burst switching for petabit capacity routers
Author :
Chen, Yuhua ; Turner, Jonathan S.
Author_Institution :
Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA
fDate :
6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
WDM burst switching is an approach to building very high capacity routing switches based on optical data paths and electronic control. Burst switches assign user data bursts to channels in WDM links on-the-fly in order to provide efficient statistical multiplexing of high rate data channels. The overall system architecture is designed to facilitate the introduction of optical switching components as they become more highly integrated. At the same time it exploits the sophistication of modern electronic processing to perform the routing and higher level control operations needed in realistic, large scale networks
Keywords :
data communication; optical fibre networks; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM burst switching; electronic control; electronic processing; high rate data channel; large scale networks; optical data paths; optical switching components; overall system architecture; petabit capacity routers; statistical multiplexing; very high capacity routing switches; Buildings; Burst switching; Integrated optics; Optical control; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical switches; Routing; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlantic City, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5538-5
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1999.821347
