LIGHTNING network and systems architecture

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1371-1387

  Dowd, Patrick ^a,b,h,i,j   Perreault, James ^a,b,j   Chu, John ^b   Hoffmeister, David C ^b   Minnich, Ron ^a,c,k,l,m   Burns, Dan ^c   Hady, Frank ^{a,d,n,o,p,q,r}   Chen, Y J ^e   Dagenais, M ^{a,f,o,s,t,u,v,w}   Stone, D ^g  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Center for Computing Sciences   (United States)

^e University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^h SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ IBM   (United States)

^j ACM

^k UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^m Supercomputing Research Center

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^p INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^q I/O Arch and Performance Group

^r Supercomputing Research Center   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^t HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u VERIZON   (United States)

^v NSF

^w OSA ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ALL OPTICAL NETWORK; BANDWIDTH REALLOCATION; DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY ENVIRONMENT; LIGHTNING NETWORK; SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0030169038     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.511668     Document Type: Article

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