Smart routers-simple optics: An architecture for the optical Internet

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1880-1891

  Hjálmtýsson, Gísli ^a   Yates, Jennifer ^a   Chaudhuri, Sid ^a   Greenberg, Albert ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication system signaling; Internet; Networks; Optical communications; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERNET; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INTERNET PROTOCOL; OPTICAL INTERNET;

ROUTERS;

EID: 0034454394     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.908768     Document Type: Article

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