| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R33434/01 |
| Title: |
Optical Packet Switched Networks (OPSNET) |
| Principal Investigator: |
White, Professor I |
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Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 July 2002 |
Ends: |
30 June 2005 |
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194,943
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As many of the networking issues facing the development of an optical backbone layer have come into focus during the past year, a clearer idea of the functions and performance needed from optical packet switching are starting to emerge. For example new technologies and technical approaches are required to enable operation at 40 Gb/s, with scalability to >100 Gb/s. Fundamental choices between synchronous and asynchronous packet operation have to be made, which have major impacts on the hardware and network control and management solutions. The outcomes from EPSRC project WASPNET, in part validated by its design and test of an all-optical packet switched node, enabled the major key issues for realistic packet networks to be understood; the project OPSNET seeks to answer a number of these. Expected outcomes are therefore concerned with understanding: the impact of data traffic statistics on switch design; the relative merits of asynchronous and synchronous packet operation and the impact of asynchronous operation on switch and network design; the technology and technical approaches necessary to support bit rates of 40 Gb/s scalable to >100 Gb/s and the technical approaches necessary to support the control and management of an asynchronous optical core network.
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