Title :
Experimental Investigation of Adaptive Ethernet Forwarding and Optical Cut-through for Metro Optical Ethernet Networks
Author :
Shao, Xu ; Zhou, Luying ; Saradhi, Chava Vijaya ; Chai, Teck Yoong ; Wang, Yixin
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore
Abstract :
We present a system design for hybrid Ethernet and WDM employing commercial ethernet hardware platform, and experimentally evaluate various schemes to achieve switching between Ethernet forwarding and optical cut-through lightpaths.
Keywords :
metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; adaptive Ethernet forwarding; metro optical Ethernet network; optical cut-through lightpath; wavelength division multiplexing; Adaptive optics; Costs; Ethernet networks; Hardware; Multiprotocol label switching; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Telecommunication traffic; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-831-4
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2007.4348357
