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Toward Optical Packet Switching

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Optical approaches are under development to address the problem of switching capacity in the data network.

Pietro Bernasconi, John E. Simsarian, Jürgen Gripp, Markus Dülk and David T. Neilson, Bell Labs

When we surf the Internet or when some of us place a phone call — and in the near future when we watch TV — we send and receive information from the data network (Figure 1). It is a nontrivial task to manage traffic coming from and going to everywhere, especially when the amount of data involved is so large and is growing so rapidly. Figure 1. More services are moving to the data network, increasing the pressure on the network nodes. Network switches and packet routers ensure that all the pieces of information, or packets, are forwarded correctly to their intended destination. Switches...Read full article

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