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5 December 2005 Multi-terabit hybrid photonic switching and routing
Lakshman S. Tamil, Andrea Fumagalli
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Proceedings Volume 6022, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications III; 60221N (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.640176
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China
Abstract
Constructing multi-Terabit switches and routers entirely out of electronic cross-bars require multiple racks of switches and huge number of interconnects. The cost and power consumption of such a system is very high and has a limited scalability. The all-optical switching has the problem of buffering and processing and the construction of multi-terabit switches and routers based on all-optical switching is not feasible in the near future. However, based on a hybrid approach, using optical cross-bars with nanosecond switching time and large bandwidth and DWDM interconnects in conjunction with electrical memory, one can construct huge and highly scalable switches and routers.
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Lakshman S. Tamil and Andrea Fumagalli "Multi-terabit hybrid photonic switching and routing", Proc. SPIE 6022, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications III, 60221N (5 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.640176
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KEYWORDS
Switching

Switches

Picosecond phenomena

Dense wavelength division multiplexing

Semiconductor optical amplifiers

Associative arrays

Composites

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