Title :
Feasibility of optical technologies for packet switching networks
Author :
Hu, Wei Sheng ; Sun, Weiqiang ; He, Hao ; Jin, Yaohui ; Xiao, Shilin
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Optical packet switching (OPS) has been the premier choice for the future Internet. After the effort of OPS researches, however, big challenges still remain unsolved, which include fast tunable wavelength conversion, optical switch fabrics at large dimension, high-speed burst-mode transceiver, random access optical buffers, photonic integration. In this paper, we will elaborate on some technical challenges in realizing the OPS test-bed.
Keywords :
Internet; optical burst switching; optical switches; optical transceivers; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; Internet; OPS; burst mode transceiver; optical packet switching; optical switch fabric; photonic integration; random access optical buffer; tunable wavelength conversion; IP networks; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Photonics; Synchronous digital hierarchy; arrayed wageguide communications; energy consumption; optical packet switching; optical switch;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2012 21st Annual
Conference_Location :
Kaohsiung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0940-0
DOI :
10.1109/WOCC.2012.6198149