Outline

• Technologies for high bit rate optical systems

  • Optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) systems
  • Devices for high speed optical demultiplexing
  • High bandwidth all-optical sampling

• Optical burst/packet routing with sub-carrier optical headers

  • Optical Label Switching (OLS) system concepts
  • Telcordia OLS testbed
  • Advantages of transparent optical burst/packet networks

• Conclusions: remaining challenges of transparent networking

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