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Demonstration of 100 Gbps optical packet switching using header processor based on 48-bit longest prefix matching

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Wire-rate packet processing and its energy saving for over 100 Gbps speed of line are major issues to be resolved in optical packet switching (OPS) networks. For that purpose, we newly develop a high-speed, deterministic-latency electronic header processor based on longest prefix matching (LPM) for searching optical packet destination addresses (OP-DAs). This paper reports the successful experimental results of electronic header processing based on LPM search of up to 48 bits and optical switching of 100 Gbps optical packets by the use of the header processor. We demonstrate 48-bit LPM-capable optical packet switching. We also demonstrate IP packet transfer and 32-bit LPM-capable optical packet switching. In the latter demonstration, the 32-bit OP-DA of optical packets is directly copied from the 32-bit destination address of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) packets. This result indicates that OPS networks can be deployed with electronic IP networks by the use of integrated network operation between OPS and IP networks.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Associate Professor Shin-ichi Arakawa, Ph.D., at Osaka University for his valuable comments on our research experiments. And also, we would like to thank Takahisa Uemura at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology for his technical supports on this work.

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  1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan

    Hideaki Furukawa & Hiroaki Harai

  2. Renesas Electronics Corporation, 5-20-1 Jyosuihon-cho, Kodaira, Tokyo, 187-8588, Japan

    Yasuto Kuroda, Yuji Yano & Shoji Koyama

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Furukawa, H., Harai, H., Kuroda, Y. et al. Demonstration of 100 Gbps optical packet switching using header processor based on 48-bit longest prefix matching. Photon Netw Commun 31, 483–492 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-015-0581-4

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