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Optical 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Building Blocks for Mobile Free-Space-Optical Networks
White Paper Existence of Line Of Sight (LOS) and alignment between the communicating antennas are one of the key requirements for Free-Space-Optical (FSO) communication. This paper proposes a new optical antenna design that employs spherical antennas covered... [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]
Dynamic Routing in Translucent WDM Optical Networks
White Paper Translucent WDM optical networks use sparse placement of regenerators to overcome the impairments and wavelength contention introduced by fully transparent networks, and achieve a performance close to fully opaque networks with much less cost. [18 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Routing in Translucent WDM Optical Networks: The Intra-Domain Case
White Paper Translucent WDM optical networks use sparse placement of regenerators to overcome physical impairments and wavelength contention introduced by fully transparent networks, and achieve a performance close to fully opaque networks at a much less cost. [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]
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