Scalability and energy consumption of optical and electronic packet switching

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 2410-2421

  Tucker, Rodney S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy consumption; energy efficiency; Optical packet switching (OPS)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PACKET NETWORKS; RESONATORS; SCALABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; SWITCHING NETWORKS; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRONIC DRIVERS; ELECTRONIC SWITCHES; OPTICAL CONVERTERS; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHES; OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING; OPTICAL SWITCH FABRICS; SCALING CAPABILITY; THROUGHPUT IMPROVEMENT;

PACKET SWITCHING;

EID: 80051492667     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2161602     Document Type: Article

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