This paper describes experimental results of the IP traffic condition based dynamic optical path allocation network system. In the system, optical paths are dynamically allocated between congested node pairs to cope with traffic fluctuations. It seems that this experiment is the first of its kind in the world.

In this paper, we discuss configurations of photonic ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) switches and their advantages in terms of the number of optical switching devices to be implemented on the system, the number of wavelengths, throughput, broadcast function etc. In particular, we focus on photonic ATM switch architectures which can be built in the near future; that is, with presently available optical and electrical devices. For example, we assume the optical devices such as optical gate switches with 40 dB on/off ratio. In this context, we evaluate 17 types of photonic ATM switches; they are 6 types of input buffer type switches, 6 types of output buffer type switches, 4 types of shared buffer switches, and 1 proposed type. From our evaluation, for cell switching, wavelength division switching technologies are desirable compared with space division switching technologies in the sense that the former enables us to build a photonic ATM switch with the less number of optical gate switches. Furthermore, we propose a switch architecture equipped with optical delay line buffers on outputs and electric buffers on inputs. We show that our switch architecture is superior in the number of required optical gate switch elements under the given conditions.

This paper describes a novel channel allocation and DBA (Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation) mechanism for ECDM-PON (Electric Code Division Multiplex -- Passive Optical Network) systems. In the current ECDM-PON systems, each ONU (Optical Network Unit) is limited to 2 or 3 CDM channels. This is because (fixed channel) CDM transmitters are expensive, and tunable CDM transmitters even more expensive. With a small number of CDM channels, the bandwidth utilization ratio is restricted by channel blocking. Our proposed mechanisms can reduce the channel blocking ratio without increasing the number of CDM transmitters or using tunable CDM transmitters. To clarify the advantages of the proposed system performance, we have evaluated the channel non-blocking ratio (Rn) and wasted resource ratio (Rw) when some users request bandwidth more than 100%. Evaluation of the non-blocking ratio, Rn shows that the proposed mechanisms approach the performance of a system with tunable CDM transmitters when the number of ONUs with over 100% traffic load is small. We have also simulated throughput for uniform traffic. In addition to these evaluations, we implemented our proposed mechanism on an FPGA (Field Programming Gate Array) and evaluated the calculation speed to allocate timeslots on CDM channels and a timeline.