bandwidth optical
RSS bandwidth opticalScalable Opto-Electronic Network (SOENet)
White Paper Emerging optical technology enables new topologies by allowing links to cover large distances but at a significant premium in cost compared to high-speed electrical links. Existing topologies do not cost-effectively exploit these optical links. [04 Aug 2008]
Pluggable Optical Backplane Technology
White Paper To meet the ever increasing demands in integrated circuit development, the speed and density of electronic communication paths and interconnects are expected to reach a stage, in the near future, where the cost of overcoming the fundamental... [04 Aug 2008]
Analysis of Next Generation PON Architecture for Optical Broadband Access Networks
White Paper This architecture guarantees backward compatibility for users on existing TDM-PONs with only minimal upgrades on feeder network while providing higher bandwidth to users on new WDM-PON. This paper has reviewed the access network bandwidth... [04 Aug 2008]
Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) Technologies for Broadband Access: A Review [Invited]
White Paper The Passive Optical Network (PON) is an optical fiber based network architecture, which can provide much higher bandwidth in the access network compared to traditional copper-based networks. Incorporating Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) in a... [18 Jul 2008]
Gain Uniformity Optimization of SOA-Based Optical Packet Switching Nodes for Performance and Scalability Improvements
White Paper A design methodology is proposed in this paper that can potentially provide effective bandwidth and scalability improvements to optical packet switching environments utilizing semiconductor optical amplifiers as broadcast-and-select switching... [18 Jul 2008]
Federated Grid Clusters Using Service Address Routed Optical Networks
White Paper With the advent of modern optical networking technologies, geographically distant clusters can be federated to yield systems considered tightly-coupled. By using Service Address Routed (SAR) optical networks, cluster federations are shown to be... [18 Jul 2008]
Utilizing Path Diversity in Optical Packet Switched Interconnection Networks
White Paper Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs) are used as switching elements to allow for all-optical wideband transmission and packet-rate granularity, facilitating high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, and high utilization that are required for future... [18 Jul 2008]
Light Trails: A Sub-Wavelength Solution for Optical Networking
White Paper All-optical networks are able to transport data from source to destination entirely in the optical domain. This is a departure from current optical networks that rely on Optical-Electrical-Optical (OEO) conversion at each intermediate connection... [18 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Injection Control Module for Optical Packet Switching Fabrics
White Paper Optical Packet Switched (OPS) networks offer the unique combination of encompassing the enormous capacity of the optical domain while providing versatile connectivity afforded by individual packet routing. [18 Jul 2008]
A Novel Method for QoS Provisioning With Protection in GMPLS Networks
White Paper The Integrated Traffic Engineering (ITE) paradigm provides mechanisms for dynamic addition of physical capacity to optical networks. The objective of the proposed policy is to use ITE to set up virtual tunnels at the MPLS and optical level and... [18 Jul 2008]
10 Gbps NRZ-DPSK Modulation in SOA-Based Optical Packet Switching Networks
White Paper Optical Packet Switched (OPS) networks are a promising means of delivering high bandwidth data communication with the fine granularity enabled by individual packet routing. In most OPS network architectures, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA... [18 Jul 2008]
Connection Management in Wavelength-Routed Optical Networks
White Paper The demand for bandwidth has stimulated the research in wavelength-routed optical networks. The deployment of this technology will depend on successful network management protocols. This paper reviews various configuration management protocols. [18 Jul 2008]
A Network Management Architecture for Robust Packet Routing in Mesh Optical Access Networks
White Paper This paper describes architecture for optical Local Area Network (LAN) or Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) access. The architecture allows for bandwidth sharing within a wavelength and is robust to both link and node failures. [18 Jul 2008]
WDM and SDM in Future Optical Networks
White Paper To meet these demands, optical techniques are being introduced in public networks but on a link-to-link basis. This paper addresses future networks that will be to a large extent all-optical. It is prompted by the fact that both SDM and WDM are... [18 Jul 2008]
Optical Switching Middleware for the OptIPuter
White Paper Observing that the exponential growth rates in bandwidth and storage are now much higher than Moore's Law, this major new project of several universities - currently six in the US and one in Amsterdam - exploits a new world of computing in which... [18 Jul 2008]
