OPTIMA: Tb/s ATM switching system architecture

Author

Yamanaka, Naoaki ; Yasukawa, Seisho ; Oki, Eiji ; Kurimoto, Takashi

Author_Institution

NTT Network Service Syst. Labs., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

25-28 May 1997

Firstpage

691

Lastpage

696

Abstract

A Tb/s throughput ATM switching architecture, OPTIMA, is proposed for a quasi-non-blocking large switch. The switch uses hardware self-rearrangement with a three stage network, that is traffic control is automatically performed by hardware. The switch thus acts as a non-blocking switch. In addition, optical wavelength routing is used to avoid interconnection limitations. An 8×8 interconnection is realized that uses 8 wavelengths to transfer 10 Gb/s signals. A 640 Gb/s OPTIMA prototype is described. The proposed OPTIMA architecture and 640 Gb/s system can be applied to realize future broadband ATM networks

Keywords

B-ISDN; asynchronous transfer mode; multistage interconnection networks; optical interconnections; optical switches; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; 10 Gbit/s; 640 Mbit/s; ATM switching system architecture; B-ISDN; OPTIMA; broadband ATM networks; hardware self-rearrangement; interconnection; multimedia switch; optical wavelength routing; quasi-nonblocking large switch; three stage network; traffic control; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer architecture; Hardware; Integrated circuit interconnections; Multimedia systems; Optical switches; Prototypes; Switching systems; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE ATM Workshop 1997. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Lisboa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4196-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATM.1997.624767

Filename

624767