Implementation of Optical Burst Switched IP-over-WDM Networks Using Tunable Transmitter and Tunable Receiver

The amount of raw bandwidth available on fiber optic links has increased dramatically with advances in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM). The increase of bursty Internet traffic as opposed to non-bursty voice traffic makes it important to handle this increasing class of traffic. An all-optical transport method, Optical Burst Switching (OBS) was developed in order to efficiently utilize this bandwidth, which avoids optical buffering while handling bursty traffic, and which supports fast resource provisioning and asynchronous transmission of variable sized packets. OBS is one such method for transporting traffic directly over a buffer less optical WDM network. This paper describes about the Implementation of Optical Burst Switched IP-over-WDM Network using Tunable Transmitter and Tunable Receiver.