Comparing Optical Packet Switching And Optical Burst Switching

Abstract

The switching is an important part of the telecommunication networks over the years for transferring and handling voice and data through the traditional switching nodes existing in the telecommunication networks. Various developments were seen in the recent years which resulted in increasing data transfer capabilities of the transmission networks all over the world, however the switching speed and techniques are still remained unchanged in most of the cases that neither match the data transfer capacities nor the expanding demand of the networks in the near future. Some switching technologies are still in the developing stage, of them two are more obvious: Optical Packet Switching (OPS) and Optical Burst Switching (OBS). In this paper, I tried to compare different paradigm of these two main developments, keeping in mind that the OPS would see rapid development in the near future than the OBS, though OBS would the ultimate solution of switching for the bulk volume of telephone and data traffic Keywords: Optical Packet Switching; Optical Burst Switching; Bulk Volume; Data Traffic; Wavedivision Multiplexing DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/diujst.v6i2.9342 DIUJST 2011; 6(2): 22-32