40 Gb/s WDM cross-connect with an electronic switching core: preliminary results from the WEST Consortium

Author

Chang, C.E. ; Pedrotti, K.D. ; Price, A. ; Campana, A.D. ; Meeker, D. ; Beccue, S.M. ; Wu, D. ; Wang, K.C. ; Metzger, A. ; Asbeck, P.M. ; Huff, D. ; Kwong, N. ; Swass, M. ; Zhang, S.Z. ; Bowers, J.

Author_Institution

Sci. Center, Rockwell Int. Corp., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

336

Abstract

The WEST cross-connect switch is a 3×3 (3 fibers, 4 channels/fiber, 10 Gbs/channel) WDM network switch based on electronic switching (OC-48 and/or OC-192 compatible) with an aggregate data throughput of 120 Gb/s. This WEST switch features full data regeneration and retiming, arbitrary reassignment of wavelengths, and broadcasting

Keywords

electronic switching systems; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; OC-192; OC-48; WDM cross-connect switch; WEST Consortium; broadcasting; data regeneration; electronic switching; opical fiber network; retiming; wavelength reassignment; Distributed feedback devices; Gallium arsenide; Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; SONET; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.645454

Filename

645454