Switching technologies for future guided wave optical networks: Potentials and limitations of photonics and electronics

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 106-112

  Thylén, Lars ^a   Karlsson, Gunnar ^b   Nilsson, Olle ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE; BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CIRCUIT SWITCHING; PHOTONIC SWITCHING; STATISTICAL ALLOCATION; SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY; SYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0030086781     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.481304     Document Type: Article

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