A PROTOTYPE CIRCUIT-SWITCHED MULTIWAVELENGTH OPTICAL METROPOLITAN-AREA NETWORK

Authors
JANNIELLO FJ RAMASWAMI R STEINBERG DG
Citation
Fj. Janniello et al., A PROTOTYPE CIRCUIT-SWITCHED MULTIWAVELENGTH OPTICAL METROPOLITAN-AREA NETWORK, Journal of lightwave technology, 11(5-6), 1993, pp. 777-782
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Journal of lightwave technology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07338724
Volume
11
Issue
5-6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
777 - 782
Database
ISI
SICI code
0733-8724(1993)11:5-6<777:APCMOM>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
This paper describes Rainbow, a prototype optical network based on wav elength-division multi-access. Rainbow supports full-duplex circuit-sw itched interconnection of up to 32 workstations over a diameter of 25 km, at sustained bit rates of up to 300 Mb/s per connection, allowing a total network capacity of 9.6 Gb/s. Different connections are transp arent to each other and may use different protocols and bit rates.