Photonic networking in the Internet era

Author

Kuchar, Anton

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron., Czechoslovak Acad. of Sci., Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

326

Lastpage

328

Abstract

Due to exponential growth of traffic generated mainly by services utilising the Internet platform, photonic technologies are being increasingly used not only for transmission but are also making their way into network nodes to implement routing and switching. First photonic networking elements have appeared on the market enabling circuit switching while optical packet and burst switching are still hot research subjects. In this paper progress in introducing photonic technologies in communication networks is reviewed and development trends in this area are discussed

Keywords

Internet; circuit switching; optical fibre networks; packet switching; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM; Internet platform; circuit switching; communication networks; dense wavelength division multiplexing; network nodes; optical burst switching; optical packet switching; photonic networking; photonic networking elements; photonic routing; photonic switching; photonic technologies; traffic; Burst switching; Communication switching; IP networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical packet switching; Photonics; Routing; Switching circuits; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2001. Proceedings of 2001 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cracow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7096-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2001.934782

Filename

934782