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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
17.5 SWITCH FABRICS
This section explores a range of switch fabrics and presents a model of energy
consumption in different switch fabric technologies.
17.5.1 Optical Switch Fabrics
Overviews of optical cross-connect switch fabrics are provided in Refs [51–53].
Chapter 16 of this volume includes a discussion of optical switch fabric technol-
ogies for optical packet switching. A key requirement of switch fabrics for packet
switches is that the switching time is small compared with the packet length. The
length of an IP packet at 40 Gb/s can be between as small as 13 ns and as large as
300 ns. Therefore, in order to avoid inefficiencies in utilization ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721