Merging advanced electronic and optical WDM technologies for 640-Gbit/s ATM switching system

An experimental 640-Gbit/s ATM switching system is described. The switching system is scalable and quasi-nonblocking. It uses hardware self-rearrangement in a three-stage network. Hardware implementation results for the switching system is presented. The switching system is fabricated using advanced...

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Published in1999 IEEE International Conference on Communications (Cat. No. 99CH36311) Vol. 2; pp. 806 - 811 vol.2
Main Authors Oki, E., Yamanakam, N., Yasukawa, S., Kawano, R., Okazaki, K.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1999
Subjects
Asynchronous transfer mode
CMOS technology
Hardware
High speed optical techniques
Merging
Optical switches
Switching systems
Telecommunication traffic
Throughput
Wavelength division multiplexing
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Summary:An experimental 640-Gbit/s ATM switching system is described. The switching system is scalable and quasi-nonblocking. It uses hardware self-rearrangement in a three-stage network. Hardware implementation results for the switching system is presented. The switching system is fabricated using advanced 0.25 /spl mu/m CMOS devices, high-density multi-chip-module (MCM) technologies, and optical wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) interconnection technologies. A scalable 80-Gbit/s switching module is fabricated combined with a newly developed scalable-distributed-arbitration technique, and a WDM interconnection system that connects all 80-Gbit/s switching modules is developed. Using these components: an experimental 640-Gbit/s switching system is partially constructed. It can be applied to realize future broadband ATM networks.
ISBN:078035284X
9780780352841
DOI:10.1109/ICC.1999.765385