Title : 
Optical flow switching
         
        
            Author : 
Chan, Vincent W. S. ; Jacobs, Jaco ; Jacobs, Irwin
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Present-day networks are being challenged by dramatic increases in bandwidth demand of emerging applications. We will explore a new transport, ldquooptical flow switchingrdquo, that will enable significant growth and cost-effective scalability of next-generation data networks.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical communication; packet switching; bandwidth demand; next-generation data networks; optical flow switching; optical packet switching; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Computer architecture; Costs; Distributed computing; Image motion analysis; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical sensors; Scalability;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Hong Kong
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4102-0
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4103-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/OECC.2009.5214252