Architecture and performance of optical packet switching router architecture for future Internet networks

Abstract

This paper describes the architecture, operation and performance of an optical packet switching node prototype with 2 wavelength/channels and label swapping capabilities. Also, the main subsystems of the node to route and forward optical packets at 10 Gb/s NRZ based on the155 Mb/s 18GHz-SCM encoded label are described.

Keywords

• optical packet switching
• optical label swapping
• wavelength conversion
• GMPLS
• IP over WDM