Experimental Demonstration of Multicast-capable Variable Bandwidth Colored Packet Switching using SOA Switch and Stacked OC Label Processing

Author

Kataoka, Nobuyuki ; Sone, Kyosuke ; Wada, N. ; Aoki, Yuya ; Kinoshita, Shosuke ; Onaka, H. ; Miyazaki, Toshimasa ; Kitayama, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2008

fDate

24-28 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We propose multicast-capable variable bandwidth colored packet switching using SOA based broadcast-and-select switch and stacked optical-code label processing. Three-node operation of 10 Gbit/s × 10λ optical packet multicasting is experimentally demonstrated.

Keywords

multicast communication; optical communication equipment; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; SOA switch; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; broadcast-and-select switch; multicast-capable variable bandwidth colored packet switching; optical packet multicasting; stacked OC label processing; stacked optical-code label processing; three-node operation; Bandwidth; Optical buffering; Optical control; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Payloads; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-856-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528423

Filename

4528423