Accession Number:

ADA247617

Title:

STARNET: A MultiGbit/s Optical Local Area Network with Both Packet and Circuit Switching

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Kazovsky, Leonid
• Poggiolini, P.

Report Date:

1991-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

The potential of passive star WDM networks is believed to be extremely high. STARNET is a new broadband optical LAN based on such physical structure. Every STARNET node supports both packet traffic and a high-speed WDM circuit interconnect, simultaneously and independently. As a result, STARNET carries diverse types of traffic i.e. bursty and continuous, low-speed and broadband in an efficient way. Each node requires only two lasers and its structure permits frequency stabilization of the whole network. An experimental 4-node, 12Gbits 3Gbits per node, FDDI-compatible at the packet network level STARNET is being built at Stanford University. Each node of the network is optically connected to a passive optical star. Each node is also equipped with a fixed frequency transmitter which is assigned a unique frequency, so that a comb of optical carriers is formed. Transmitters multiplex two independent data streams on the same optical carrier, the C circuit stream and the P packet stream, using non-interfering modulation formats, DPSK and low- modulation-index ASK, respectively.

Descriptors:

• *STABILIZATION
• DATA PROCESSING
• OPTICAL PROPERTIES
• NETWORKS
• PACKETS
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• PASSIVE SYSTEMS
• EFFICIENCY
• LASERS
• NODES
• BROADBAND
• TRANSMITTERS
• SUPPORTS
• CIRCUITS
• MULTIPLEXING
• SWITCHING
• STARS
• FREQUENCY

Subject Categories:

• Lasers and Masers
• Optics
• Command, Control and Communications Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE