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The introduction of optical switching could provide high capacity switching nodes cheaper than the current electronic switches and could allows end-to-end connections through the whole network simplifying the structure of the network itself. The key problems related to optical switching are discussed and the main reference switch architectures are reported. The integration of optical functions through the whole network are addressed in order to show the feasibility of end-to-end optical networks.
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Caponio, N.P. (1999). Optical Switching for End-to-end Packet Communications and its Potential Advantages over Electronic Switching. In: Bononi, A. (eds) Optical Networking. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0525-1_30
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