Cost comparison of all-optical packet switches with shared wavelength converters

Proceedings of 2007 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 209-212

  Raffaelli, Carla ^a   Savi, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COSTS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; SWITCHES;

ARCHITECTURAL APPROACHES; COMPONENT COSTS; COST COMPARISONS; COST MODELS; COST RATIOS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHES; PERFORMANCE TARGETS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATIONS; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURES; SHARED PER NODES; SHARED WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS; SWITCH ARCHITECTURES; WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 48349102047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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