An ultra-low latency routing node for optical packet interconnection networks

Author

Shacham, Assaf ; Small, Benjamin A. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile ; Mack, John P. ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

565

Abstract

The design of low latency optical interconnect switching node has been confirmed. Six of such nodes have been successfully fabricated on a single 6" × 19" PCB and have been arranged into a switching fabric subsystem. The latency of each node is 16.4 ns and the required deadtime is 2.0 ns, and because the node itself is payload-transparent, there is almost no limit to the bandwidth of the packets which it can route. Further design improvements will reduce the latency and improve address processing functionality.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; packet switching; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; 16.4 ns; 19 in; 2.0 ns; 6 in; WDM data channels; address processing functionality; optical interconnect switching node; optical interconnection networks; optical packet networks; payload-transparent node; switching fabric subsystem; ultralow latency routing node; Bandwidth; Data communication; Delay; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Optical buffering; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical packet switching; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength routing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8557-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363364

Filename

1363364