Challenges in the design of a 100 Gb/s Internet

Author

Huang, Alan

Author_Institution

Stanford Univ., CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

23-24 Oct 1995

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

89

Abstract

A 100 Gb/s Internet can be implemented with 100 Gb/s links and switches. 100 Gb/s wavelength division multiplexed links are commercially available. Experimental time division multiplexed optical links have been demonstrated. Current memory based ATM switches are limited to 100 million packets a second while a 100 Gb/s link is equivalent to 230 million ATM packets per second. Current ATM switches will have to be organized into parallel multi stage switching fabric to distribute the load and the packet size will have to be lengthened

Keywords

Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; optical communication; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; 100 Gb/s Internet; 100 bit/s; memory based ATM switches; packet size; parallel multi stage switching fabric; time division multiplexed optical links; wavelength division multiplexed links; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Fabrics; Internet; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Telecommunication switching; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, 1995., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7101-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPPOI.1995.528631

Filename

528631