Optical buffering and switching in packet switched optical networks

Author

Geldenhuys, R. ; Leuschner, Fw

Author_Institution

Pretoria Univ., South Africa

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2-4 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

259

Abstract

Optical packet switching provides the advantages of transparency and the efficient use of the bandwidth provided by WDM on optical transport networks. There are however various impediments to deploying this technology in an all-optical fashion: optical buffering is inefficient, and all-optical signal processing has not been implemented in networks. It is possible to utilise optical signal processing for all-optical header processing and all-optical switching, and proof of concept experiments have been done to verify this.

Keywords

buffer storage; optical fibre networks; optical information processing; optical storage; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; all-optical header processing; all-optical signal processing; all-optical switching; all-optical technology; bandwidth; optical buffering; optical packet switching; optical transport networks; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Intelligent networks; Optical buffering; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Optical signal processing; Optical wavelength conversion; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Africon Conference in Africa, 2002. IEEE AFRICON. 6th

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7570-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.2002.1146844

Filename

1146844