• DocumentCode
    2294260
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-20 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Photonics (IP), 2011 ICO International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ottawa, ON
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-315-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953706
  • Filename
    5953706