Merging advanced electronic and optical WDM technologies for 640-Gbit/s ATM switching system

Author

Oki, Eiji ; Yamanaka, Naoaki ; Yasukawa, Seisho ; Kawano, Ryusuke ; Okazaki, Katsuhiko

Author_Institution

NTT Network Service Syst. Lab., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

806

Abstract

An experimental 640-Gbit/s ATM switching system is described. The switching system is scalable and quasi-nonblocking. It uses hardware self-rearrangement in a three-stage network. Hardware implementation results for the switching system is presented. The switching system is fabricated using advanced 0.25 μm CMOS devices, high-density multi-chip-module (MCM) technologies, and optical wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) interconnection technologies. A scalable 80-Gbit/s switching module is fabricated combined with a newly developed scalable-distributed-arbitration technique, and a WDM interconnection system that connects all 80-Gbit/s switching modules is developed. Using these components: an experimental 640-Gbit/s switching system is partially constructed. It can be applied to realize future broadband ATM networks

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; asynchronous transfer mode; electronic switching systems; multichip modules; optical interconnections; optical switches; wavelength division multiplexing; 0.25 micron; 640 Gbit/s; 80 Gbit/s; ATM switching system; CMOS devices; MCM technology; WDM interconnection system; broadband ATM networks; electronic technology; hardware implementation results; hardware self-rearrangement; high-density multichip module; optical WDM technology; quasi-nonblocking switching system; scalable switching system; scalable-distributed-arbitration technique; switching modules; three-stage network; video on demand; wavelength division multiplexing; Asynchronous transfer mode; CMOS technology; Hardware; High speed optical techniques; Merging; Optical switches; Switching systems; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1999. ICC '99. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5284-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1999.765385

Filename

765385