Abstract
The potential of passive star WDM networks is believed to be extremely high.1-3 STARNET is a new broadband optical LAN based on such physical structure. Every STARNET node supports both packet traffic and a high-speed WDM circuit interconnect, simultaneously and independently. As a result, STARNET carries diverse types of traffic (i.e., bursty and continuous, low-speed and broadband) in an efficient way. Each node requires only two lasers and its structure permits frequency stabilization of the whole network. An experimental four-node, 12-Gbit/s (3-Gbit/s per node) FDDI-compatible (at the packet network level) STARNET is being built at Stanford University.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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