Design and analysis of high-performance switched optical interconnection network using WDM technology

Abstract

A high-performance switched optical interconnection network is designed. The top layer of optical fiber ring network builds upon wavelength division multiplexing and hardware routing technologies. The bottom layer of star network has a throughput of 10 Gbit/s based on an 8-channel digital cross-point switch. Two types of optical network interface cards are developed to meet the requirements of interconnection bandwidth and support PCI bus full bandwidth of 1.056 Gbit/s and 4.224 Gbit/s, respectively. Field programmable gate array (FPGA) is adopted for frame head analysis, hardware routing and dynamic switch configuration. By adding a subnet to enlarge the network, the maximal delay increment is only 1.5 µ s.