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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Optical networking"”.
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Optical networking equipment manufacturing
… recently begun manufacturing equipment for the optical networking equipment (ONE) industry. The expansion to include ONE manufacturing requires the development of new skills in handling optical fiber and components, a new supply chain strategy, and a new approach to manufacturing systems …
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Novel all-optical switching and processing techniques for optical networking
In this thesis, the possibility of processing optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) signals in both the temporal and spectral domains is investigated. The technique relies on the conversion of high-speed OTDM signals into a mixed time and wavelength division multiplexing (TDM-WDM) format. …
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Design and implementation of a supply chain management system at an emerging optical networking component supplier
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2002.
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All optical networking beyond 10 Gbits/s OTDM networks based on electro-optic modulators and fibre ring lasers
… thesis examines options for high capacity all optical networks. Specifically optical time division multiplexed (OTDM) networks based on electro-optic modulators are investigated experimentally, whilst comparisons with alternative approaches are carried out. It is intended that the thesis will …
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Design and analysis of optical flow switched networks
In the four decades since optical fiber was introduced as a communications medium, optical networking has revolutionized the telecommunications landscape. It has enabled the Internet as we know it today, and is central to the realization of Network-Centric Warfare in the defense world. Sustained …
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End-to-end data reliability in optical flow switching
Ever since optical fiber was introduced in the 1970s as a communications medium, optical networking has revolutionized the telecommunications landscape. With sustained exponential increase in bandwidth demand, innovation in optical networking needs to continue to ensure cost-effective …
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Comprehensive security strategy for all-optical networks
Optical networking is a powerful means of communication in modem times of high bandwidth demands and high data speeds. While developments in optical networking continue to progress, however, the security implications they create have not yet caught up. In this thesis, we characterize a selection of …
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A Framework for Divisible Load E-science Applications in Optical Grids
… locations. Such applications usually require optical networking for fast and reliable data transfer. In this thesis, we propose a framework for divisible load applications in optical grids. Within this framework, schedulers are developed to co-schedule computational and optical network …
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Robust Data Center Network Design using Space Division Multiplexing
… work to enhance the data-carrying capacity of optical fibers while minimizing the transmission cost per bit. The objective of our work is to develop a path protection scheme to handle communication requests in data center (DC) networks using elastic optical networking and space division …
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An analysis of cross grain saturation effects in systems of cascaded erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
… fiber amplifier (EDFA) and its importance to optical networking and a discussion of the technique of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The chapter closes with a statement of the problem to be addressed in this thesis. Chapter 2 provides background in relating a literature search for …
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Device integration for silicon microphotonic platforms
… and devices provide high density integration for optical networking and on-chip optical interconnects. Four such waveguide systems were fabricated and analyzed: crystalline silicon-on-insulator (SOI) strip, polycrystalline silicon (polySi) strip, silicon nitride strip and SPARROW waveguides. The …
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An integrated heterodyne interferometer with on-chip detectors and modulators
… into complete systems for applications including optical networking and communications, imaging, and sensors. Among complex optical systems, the interferometer represents perhaps the most important class of optical sensors and scientific instruments ever developed. Today, interferometric …
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Simulation of an optical network system for a space based high performance computer system
… High Performance Computer System is a high-speed optical network for faster data transmission. The purpose of this project is to research and simulate next generation computing applications on high-speed optical networks. The research has been performed in the System Application context involving …
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Optical packet networking using optical time division multiplexing.
… have stimulated the development of high-speed optical shared media networks. At present, most research on optical networking has concentrated on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). Optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM), which offers advantages over WDM networks, is considered as an …
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Traffic and performance evaluation for optical networks. An Investigation into Modelling and Characterisation of Traffic Flows and Performance Analysis and Engineering for Optical Network Architectures.
… Internet applications, like peer to peer networking and the increased number of users and services, demand a more efficient bandwidth allocation in optical networks. In this context, new architectures and protocols are needed in conjuction with cost effective quantitative methodologies in …
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Cross-Layer Platform for Dynamic, Energy-Efficient Optical Networks
… in bandwidth demands. Novel, energy-efficient, optical networking technologies and architectures are required to effectively meet the stringent performance requirements with low cost and ultrahigh energy efficiencies. In this thesis, a cross-layer communications platform is proposed to enable …
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Design of optical networks for advanced applications
… emergence of single IP based transport service. Optical networking is a key technology to answer the increasing requests for dynamic bandwidth allocation and configure multiple topologies over the same physical layer infrastructure, optical networks today are still “far” from accessible from …
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Efficient embeddings of meshes and hypercubes on a group of future network architectures.
… realizing hypercubes on a group of array-basedWDMoptical networks by analyzing the new embedding metric of wavelength requirement, as WDM optical networking is becoming a promising technology for deployment in many applications in advanced telecommunication and parallel computing. We first design …
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Capacity design for multiple quality of protection service classes in optical mesh networks
… inutilisation of the enourmous bandwidth that optical fibres are capable of providing. Forlarge-scale transmission deployment, optical networking offers excellent solutions due toits transmission reliability; with low-bit error rate, massive capacity and high scalability.Being the backbone of …
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Dynamic bandwidth management with service differentiation over ethernet passive optical networks
Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) address the first mile of the communication infrastructure between the service provider central offices and the customer sites. As a low-cost, high speed technology, EPONs are deemed as the solution to the bottleneck problem of the broadband access network. …
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