Design and Demonstration of an All-Optical Hybrid Packet and Circuit Switched Network Platform for Next Generation Data Centers

Howard Wang, Ajay S. Garg, Keren Bergman, Madeleine Glick

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2010 · 37 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

The design of a reconfigurable 4×4 photonic switch simultaneously supporting both packet and circuit switching is proposed and experimentally validated. Error-free operation and routing correctness is verified for pseudorandom 4×10-Gb/s packets and a 10-Gb/s stream.

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