• DocumentCode
    1883036
  • Title

    Scalable optical packet switching at 160 Gb/s data rate

  • Author

    Wang, Wenrui ; Calabretta, N. ; Ditewig, T. ; Agis, F. Gomez ; Zhang, S. ; Raz, O. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Dorren, H.J.S.

  • Author_Institution
    COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-24 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We investigate the feasibility of a 1 times 4096 optical-packet-switch (OPS) operating at 160 Gb/s, by cascading two 1 times 64 OPSs in a fat-tree configuration. We find error-free operation with 5.7 dB penalty over the complete system.
  • Keywords
    optical communication; packet switching; bit rate 160 Gbit/s; error-free operation; fat-tree configuration; optical packet switching; Bandwidth; Optical attenuators; Optical crosstalk; Optical distortion; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Payloads;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vienna
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5096-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5287096