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RSS opticalOptical Networks and the Future of Broadband Services
White Paper The evolution of broadband services will depend on the widespread deployment of optical networks. This paper presents a cost model that highlights the advantages of new optical networking technologies such as Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing... [18 Jul 2008]
Optical Switching: Switch Fabrics, Techniques, and Architectures
White Paper All-optical switch fabrics play a central role in the effort to migrate the switching functions to the optical layer. Optical packet switching provides an almost arbitrary fine granularity but faces significant challenges in the processing and... [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]
Optical Network Evolution - What Will the Future Bring, and Is This Step Profitable
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide current and potential investors in the Optical Internet an accurate estimation of what the next upgrade in the Optical Internet will be, and when it would be wise to invest in the necessary capital equipment. [18 Jul 2008]
Utilizing Path Diversity in Optical Packet Switched Interconnection Networks
White Paper SPINet (Scalable Photonic Integrated Network) was recently introduced as an optical packet switched interconnection architecture for local area applications such as high-performance computing systems and storage-area networks. [18 Jul 2008]
Classification of Two-Link Failures for All-Optical Networks
White Paper As all-optical networking becomes feasible, a need arises to understand the relationship between failure modes and appropriate recovery algorithms. Failure of a link is a common failure mode in such networks. [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]
Ultra Low Latency Optical Networks
White Paper This paper presents research on an ultra low latency optical network that is on the order of minimum time of flight limits on data access latency. Employed techniques include a non-blocking, bufferless topology, single pulse packets incorporating... [18 Jul 2008]
On the Throughput-Cost Tradeoff of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
White Paper This paper conducts a throughput-cost study of several optical network architectures: Optical Flow Switching (OFS), Tell-and-Go (TaG), Electronic Packet Switching (EPS), and Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS). [18 Jul 2008]
Joint Source-Channel Multistream Coding and Optical Network Adapter Design for Video Over IP
White Paper The paper consists of three equally weighted subtopics which cover some novel thoughts in designing and implementing the video over IP system in the different areas, namely, a Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET) network adapter for backbone... [18 Jul 2008]
On the Capacity of Optical Networks: A Framework for Comparing Different Transport Architectures
White Paper This paper compares three optical transport network architectures: Optical Packet Switching (OPS), Optical Flow Switching (OFS), and Optical Burst Switching (OBS). This comparison is based on a notion of network capacity as the set of exogenous... [18 Jul 2008]
A Review of Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks: Architectures and Challenges
White Paper The transmission capacity of a link in today's optical networks has increased significantly due to Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. By efficiently grooming low-speed traffic streams onto high-capacity optical channels, it is... [18 Jul 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]
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]
Latency in Grid Over Optical Burst Switching With Heterogeneous Traffic
White Paper Optical Burst Switching (OBS) has been proposed as the next generation optical network for grid computing. This paper envisions a heterogeneous Grid served by an Optical Burst Switching framework, where grid traffic co-exists with IP and/or a 10 GE... [18 Jul 2008]
