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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Selective broadcast interconnection: a novel scheme for fiber-optic local-area networks
Abstract:
We introduce a passive, unswitched scheme for directly interconnecting N stations, each of which has C transmitters and receivers. Implementations using fiber optics with spatial multiplexing and optionally wavelength multiplexing are discussed. This scheme utilizes the same resources as standard topologies with C parallel buses but outperforms them in two respects: (1) the aggregate throughput is proportional to C(2) rather than to C and (2) the power of each transmitter need reach only N/C, instead of N, receivers.
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