Ethernet White Papers
Resource Sharing of High-Speed Optical Circuits for File Transfers
Overview A number of efforts are underway to use optical networks to create high-speed end-to-end circuits. These circuits can be used for transfers of large files such as those generated by large-scale scientific applications. At the present time, gigabit and 10-gigabit Ethernet signals from end hosts are typically mapped onto metro-/wide-area SONET circuits using Ethernet-over-SONET (EoS) technologies. While SONET circuits are realized by configuring electronic circuit switches, extension of this concept to all-optical circuits will be straightforward when all-optical switches become commonplace. A few hero demonstrations have shown that 1-Gb/ s circuits can be configured from hosts in Europe to hosts in Canada/US to transfer files at high speeds over these circuits.
| Publisher | University of Virginia | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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