Optical Flow Switching (OFS) is a promising solution for large Internet data transfers. In this paper, we introduce UltraFlow Access, a novel optical access network architecture that offers dual-mode service to its end-users: IP and OFS. With UltraFlow Access, we design and implement a new dual-mode control plane and a new dual-mode network stack to ensure efficient connection setup and reliable and optimal data transmission. We study the impact of the UltraFlow system’s design on the network throughput. Our experimental results show that with an optimized system design, near optimal (around 10 Gb/s) OFS data throughput can be attained when the line rate is 10Gb/s.

Date Published: 1 February 2014
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 9007, Broadband Access Communication Technologies VIII, 900703 (1 February 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2041467

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9007:
Broadband Access Communication Technologies VIII
Benjamin B. Dingel; Katsutoshi Tsukamoto, Editor(s)