Title :
Routing-and Switching for Optical Transport Networks in RACE
Author_Institution :
Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, France
Abstract :
In future telecommunications, optical circuit- and packet-techniques will perform routing and switching to ensure simultaneously transparency, optical continuity and bandwidth granularity. Network architectures, system demonstrators and advanced technologies have been developed in Europe under RACE to study and implement future high performance optical transport networks.
Keywords :
High speed optical techniques; Intelligent networks; Optical devices; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Routing; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication switching; Time division multiplexing; WDM networks;
Conference_Titel :
Flat Panel Display Technology/Technologies for a Global Information Infrastructure/ICs for New Age Lightwave Communications/RF Optoelectronics, 1995 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings
Conference_Location :
Keystone, CO, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2448-X
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.1995.764001