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Design of Optical Switching Module for Gigabit Ethernet Optical Switched Access Network

Takumi NOMURA, Hiromi UEDA, Chikashi ITOH, Hiroaki KUROKAWA, Toshinori TSUBOI, Hiroyuki KASAI

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This paper introduces the design of an Optical Switching Module (OSM) for our newly proposed Gigabit Ethernet Optical Switched Access Network (GE-OSAN) architecture that uses the Multi-Point Control Protocol (MPCP), defined in IEEE 802.3ah. We outline the GE-OSAN architecture to clarify OSM's role in the network. We offer an OSM configuration that has the basic functions needed to realize downstream and upstream high-speed data services in GE-OSAN. We clarify the OSM optical switching time that allows GE-OSAN to achieve the same throughput as GE-PON. Our survey of currently available optical switches identifies the optical packet switches that can meet this switching time requirement. We evaluate OSM insertion loss with these switches. We propose an OSM configuration that has a regeneration function as well as the basic ones to realize wider network configurations that can lead to a reduction in overall system costs. In addition, we present OSM configurations that have broadcast and multicast functions as well as the basic ones so that GE-OSAN can support broadcast and multicast video services to equal and exceed GE-PON.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E89-B No.11 pp.3021-3031
Publication Date
2006/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.11.3021
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Fiber-Optic Transmission for Communications

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