Design issues of optical IP routers for Internet backbone applications.

Design issues of optical IP routers for Internet backbone applications.

The rapid increase of Internet traffic is pushing the deployment of WDM technology in the next-generation high-speed Internet backbone. Routers in the backbone could still be the potential bottleneck. In this article we consider some design issues of high-throughput optical routers which combine the...

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Библиографические подробности
Опубликовано в::IEEE Communications magazine 37, 12 (1999).
Главный автор: Callegati, F.
Формат: Статья
Язык:English
Предметы:
Internet architecture.
WDM.
Control function.
Design.
High-throughput optical routers.
Next-generation high-speed Internet backbone.
Optical IP routers.
Optical buffering.
Optical burst switching mechanism.
Optical switching technology.
Performance.
Traffic.