Feasibility of optical technologies for packet switching networks

Author

Hu, Wei Sheng ; Sun, Weiqiang ; He, Hao ; Jin, Yaohui ; Xiao, Shilin

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2012

fDate

19-21 April 2012

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Optical packet switching (OPS) has been the premier choice for the future Internet. After the effort of OPS researches, however, big challenges still remain unsolved, which include fast tunable wavelength conversion, optical switch fabrics at large dimension, high-speed burst-mode transceiver, random access optical buffers, photonic integration. In this paper, we will elaborate on some technical challenges in realizing the OPS test-bed.

Keywords

Internet; optical burst switching; optical switches; optical transceivers; optical wavelength conversion; packet switching; Internet; OPS; burst mode transceiver; optical packet switching; optical switch fabric; photonic integration; random access optical buffer; tunable wavelength conversion; IP networks; Optical switches; Passive optical networks; Photonics; Synchronous digital hierarchy; arrayed wageguide communications; energy consumption; optical packet switching; optical switch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2012 21st Annual

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0940-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCC.2012.6198149

Filename

6198149