TY - JOUR
AB - Journal of High Speed Networks 8 (1999) 1 1 IOS Press Guest-editorial The rapid pace at which optical technologies are being introduced in the network infrastructure has created many new avenues and challenges. Nowadays, for any path longer than 10 m, people probably will choose to use fibers instead of coppers as the solution for both near and long term bandwidth needs. The emerging wavelength-division- multiplexing (WDM) technology has greatly enhanced the transmission capacity to the THz range. The paradigm shifted from ‘IP over ATM’, ‘IP over SONET’ to, recently, ‘IP over WDM’. The concepts and technologies of reconfigurable optical networks and photonic switching are getting closer to applications. In this special issue, we would like to address the next-step directions and technology development of optical networking. The concept of burst switching was proposed to solve the problem of the long reconfiguration delay of optical switches. The paper from Professor J.S. Turner, Washington University, describes a DARPA NGI (next generation Internet) project on the terabit burst switching. We believe readers will enjoy this paper very much. The paper from AT&T Laboratories by Dr. L.Y. Lin et al. summarizes the recent technology development in the area of optical crossconnects. The 
TI - Optical Networking
JF - Journal of High Speed Networks
DO - 10.3233/hsn-1999-158
DA - 1999-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/ios-press/optical-networking-cY4d0dzE4D
SP - 1
EP - 1
VL - 8
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -