Terabit Network Concepts

Abstract

This program was intended to determine how single mode fiber optic technology can be used to significantly improve the robustness and ruggedness of communications networks. The thrust of the study was to utilize the known potential bandwidth of single mode fiber (at least 10(exp 5) GHz). The report describes several topologies, and plots their minimum power delivered between any transmitter-receiver pair for several values of coupler losses and numbers of nodes and transceivers. The conclusion shows that in a network designed for a 50 dB loss budget, over 1024 users can be supported if the topology is designed properly, and low loss components are used. Fiber optic networks, Optical LAN's, High speed optical communications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA283489

Entities

People

  • Pierre A. Humblet
  • Robert S. Kennedy

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Bandwidth
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Markov Chains
  • Mathematical Models
  • Models
  • Networks
  • Power Distribution
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Signal Processing
  • Transceivers
  • Transmitters

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.