Can simple optical switching fabrics scale to terabit per second switch capacities?

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Gaudino, Roberto ^a   Gavilanes Castillo, Guido A ^a   Neri, Fabio ^a   Finochietto, Jorge M ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Broadcast and select architectures; Optical interconnects; Optical packet switching; Optical switching fabrics

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SWITCHING; BROADCAST-AND-SELECT ARCHITECTURES; ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION DENSITY; INTERCONNECT LINES; LINE CARD; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL SWITCHING; OPTICAL SWITCHING FABRICS; OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; OVERALL DESIGN; PACKET SWITCHES; POWER BUDGETS; POWER CONSUMPTION; POWER SUPPLY; REALISTIC MODEL; SPACE DOMAIN; SWITCH CAPACITY; TERABIT; WAVELENGTH AGILITY;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FABRICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MODELS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; ROUTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SWITCHING; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 69649083489     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.1.000B56     Document Type: Article

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