Title :
Demonstration of a complete 12-port Terabit capacity optical packet switching fabric
Author :
Small, Benjamin A. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile ; Shacham, Assaf ; Mack, John P. ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report on the implementation of a complete 12-port Data Vortex optical packet switching fabric containing 36 fully-interconnected nodes. Correct routing behavior is verified for 14-channel WDM packets, and latencies below 60 ns are achieved.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical switches; packet switching; wavelength division multiplexing; 60 ns; DWDM packet routing; Data Vortex topology; fully-interconnected nodes; multichannel WDM packets; optical interconnection network; optical packet switching network; packet latency; packet switching fabric; Delay; Fabrics; Optical buffering; Optical filters; Optical interconnections; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical vortices; Routing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2005. Technical Digest. OFC/NFOEC
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-783-0
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2005.192870
