Optical hop number limits imposed by various 2 × 2 cross-connect node designs

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 400-410

  Mutafungwa, Edward ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOPOLOGY; TRANSPONDERS;

NETWORK TOPOLOGIES; OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT NODES (OXN); OPTICAL HOP NUMBER LIMITS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0009472826     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000400     Document Type: Article

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