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Optical Switching System for MPP, LAN, or WAN Systems

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Overview Whether intended for use in Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), Local-Area Networking (LAN), or Wide-Area Networking (WAN) systems, optical switching technology has not yet seen significant use in commercial practice. This paper presents the design of an optical switching system suit-able for all of the above uses. The data path is all optical, with electrical-to-optical signal translation taking place only at the message source and optical-to-electrical signal translation taking place only at the destination. The control path, however, makes extensive use of electrical technology, using a unique control algorithm appropriate to the mixed-technology design.

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Publisher	Washington University in St. Louis	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2002
Format	White Papers
Topics	Local Area Networks (LAN), Optical Networking, Wide Area Networks (WAN)

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