Title :
Design and demonstration of an all-optical hybrid packet and circuit switched network platform for next generation data centers
Author :
Wang, Howard ; Garg, Ajay S. ; Bergman, Keren ; Glick, Madeleine
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
The design of a reconfigurable 4 × 4 photonic switch simultaneously supporting both packet and circuit switching is proposed and experimentally validated. Error-free operation and routing correctness is verified for pseudorandom 4 × 10-Gb/s packets and a 10-Gb/s stream.
Keywords :
circuit switching; optical communication; packet switching; photonic switching systems; all-optical hybrid circuit switched network; all-optical hybrid packet switched network; next generation data centers; reconfigurable photonic switch; Integrated circuit interconnections; Next generation networking; Optical filters; Optical packet switching; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Packet switching; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Switching circuits; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
