An overview of lightwave packet networks |
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Authors: | Acampora AS Karol MJ |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY; |
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Abstract: | The unique systems opportunities offered by, and the unique systems constraints imposed by, lightwave technology as it applies to the field of distributed packet networks are examined. Single-channel and star topology approaches are first considered. Terabit-capacity lightwave networks are discussed, covering both wavelength-division and time-division multiplexing. Multichannel multihop lightwave networks are then considered, and a particular implementation, the ShuffleNet, is described, and its performance, as well as some simple addressing and routing schemes, is discussed |
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