Title : 
Scalability of optical intermodule interconnects for switches and routers comprising 100 Gb/s line cards
         
        
            Author : 
Naida Fehratovi?;Slavi?a Aleksi?
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Broadband Communications, Favoritenstrasse 9/388, A-1040 Austria
         
        
        
            fDate : 
3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We analyzed scalability limitations of various optical interconnection solutions for rack-to-rack applications with respect to required number of interconnecting fibres and power consumption.
         
        
            Keywords : 
"Scalability","Optical interconnections","Optical switches"
         
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1364/NFOEC.2010.JThA50