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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 37, 12 (1999).
Main Author: Callegati, F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
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.