On the optically transparent WDM ATM multicast (3M) switches |
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Authors: | F. S. Choa H. J. Chao |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore, County Baltimore, Maryland, USAb Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | We describe an architecture design and implementation of the optically transparent wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) asynchronous-transfer-mode (ATM) multicast (3M) switch for all optical high-speed networks. By using the WDM techniques, the wire complexity in both the switch fabric and the concentrator can be reduced from O(N2) to O(N). By using integrated photonic devices and highly parallel processing and pipeline control electronic circuits the switch is handling signals at the cell level (53 bytes) instead of at the bit level and can achieve very high speed and high throughput operation. Several key components, including a cell synchronizer, a photonic VCI over-writting unit, a wavelength converter, an optical concentrator, and a WDM memory, have also been proposed to realize this 3M switch. All of the photonic devices are highly integratable and are very suitable for building future large-scale, low-cost photonic ATM switches. A combination of both the ATM and WDM techniques will provide an ultimate version for optical networking with almost unlimited capacity. |
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Keywords: | optical communications photonic switches WDM devices |
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