All-optical packet switching for metropolitan area networks opportunities and challenges.

All-optical packet switching for metropolitan area networks opportunities and challenges.

The fast evolution of networks has been continuously driven by new advances in enabling technologies, as well as the growth of Internet traffic. All-optical packet switching provides high throughput, rich routing functionalities, and excellent flexibility. These characteristics make it an excellent...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 39, 3 (2001).
Main Author: Yao, Shun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Internet traffic.
MAN.
All-optical packet switching.
End-to-end connectivity.
Metropolitan area networks.
Network architecture.
Network performance.
Routing.
Throughput.