DocumentCode
3110474
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
fYear
2009
fDate
13-17 July 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OECC.2009.5214252
Filename
5214252
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