Abstract
The fast growing field of telecommunication has led to the generation of new switching technology to support a variety of communication services with a wide range of transmission speeds. But the switching speed of electronics cannot keep up with the transmission capacity offered by the optics. On the other hand, Photonic packet switches offer high speed, data rate transparency, and flexibility required by future telecommunication networks. Optical packet switching provides fine granularity to achieve high asynchronous multiplexing gain but faces significant challenges in the processing and buffering of bits at high speed. Optical burst switching (OBS) attempts to minimize the need for processing and buffering by aggregating flow of data packets into bursts. In this paper, we have reviewed the progress in the research on photonic packet switches. We have given a descriptive overview of the major activities in the rapidly growing field of telecommunication and put them in perspective with each other.
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