Title :
Scaling photonic packet switches to a large number of ports
Author :
Dorren, H.J.S. ; Lucente, S. Di ; Raz, O. ; Calabretta, N. ; Nazarathy, Y.
Author_Institution :
COBRA, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Abstract :
We investigate the impact of switching architectures that scale to thousands of ingress and egress nodes on the node control. We give an example of an architecture that is highly scalable while supporting low latency.
Keywords :
packet switching; photonic switching systems; scaling photonic packet switch; switching architecture; Computer architecture; Optical buffering; Optical switches; Optical wavelength conversion; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Information Photonics (IP), 2011 ICO International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-315-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953706
