UltraFlow access networks: A dual-mode solution for the access bottleneck

Author

Kazovsky, Leonid G. ; Dhaini, Ahmad R. ; De Leenheer, Marc ; Shen, Thomas Shunrong ; Shuang Yin ; Detwiler, Benjamin A.

Author_Institution

Photonics & Networking Res. Lab. (PNRL), Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Optical Flow Switching (OFS) is promised to be an efficient solution for large Internet data transfers. In this paper, we introduce UltraFlow Access, a novel optical access network architecture that offers dual-mode service to its end-users: IP and OFS. With UltraFlow Access, we design and implement a new control plane and a novel dual-mode network stack to ensure efficient connection setup, and reliable and optimal data transmission. Experimental testbed results demonstrate concurrent error-free transmission of 10 Gbps per-wavelength OFS and 1.25 Gbps conventional IP, delivered over the same infrastructure.

Keywords

optical fibre subscriber loops; UltraFlow access networks; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; concurrent error-free transmission; large Internet data transfers; novel dual-mode network stack; novel optical access network architecture; optical flow switching; Computer vision; IP networks; Image motion analysis; Integrated optics; Optical network units; Passive optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602823

Filename

6602823