Experimental and theoretical evaluation of an ultrafast multihop packet-switched optical TDM network test bed

Summary form only given. Recent advances and innovations in ultrafast optical time-division multiplexing (TDM) technologies will provide for the basic building blocks required in the next generation of high-speed processor interconnects and computer LANs. One network that has integrated many optical TDM technologies such as 100-Gbits/s packet compression and ultrafast demultiplexing has recently been demonstrated. The network logical and physical topology is based on the ShuffleNet architecture. In this paper, we briefly present the experimental results of this demonstration and address the physical layer performance issues including scalability, reliability, and channel constraints of such networks.