POLO-parallel optical links for gigabyte data communications

Author

Hahn, Kenneth H.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

21-24 May 1995

Firstpage

368

Lastpage

375

Abstract

A collaborative effort by the parallel optical link organization (POLO), a consortium of Hewlett-Packard, AMP, Du Pont, SDL, and the University of Southern California, to develop 10-20 Gb/s parallel optical links is described. The POLO consortium is supported by the advanced research projects agency (ARPA) and will operate between August 1994 and August 1997. Individual strengths of the consortium members are leveraged to develop affordable, high performance parallel optical interconnect modules for computer cluster, multimedia, and switching systems. The POLO consortium has also formed a User Group of seven leading computer and telecommunications companies to evaluate the POLO parallel optical link and provide feedback to the consortium

Keywords

data communication; optical communication; optical interconnections; optical links; parallel processing; 10 to 20 Gbit/s; ARPA; POLO; User Group; computer cluster systems; data communications; multimedia systems; optical interconnect modules; parallel optical links; switching systems; Collaboration; Concurrent computing; Data communication; High performance computing; Multimedia systems; Optical computing; Optical fiber communication; Optical interconnections; Switching systems; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 45th

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2736-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECTC.1995.514409

Filename

514409