The “Staggering Switch”: An Electronically Controlled Optical Packet Switch

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 56, 1993, Pages 925-936

  Haas, Zygmunt ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PACKET SWITCHING; PROBABILITY; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

STAGGERING SWITCHES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0027601781     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.233257     Document Type: Article

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