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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2009. ECOC '09. 35th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5096-1
