Korea Telecommunication Authority

Korea Telecom

Su Mi Chang

Yong Ki Park

Sang Goo Lee

Jin Sik Park

Kyeong Mo Yoon

Sang In Kim

Kwang Bok Kim

Ki O Park

Yoon Hak Bang

Sang Ho Ahn

Jin Seob Eom

The present invention relates to an apparatus of a high speed optical buffer utilizing a cell pointer so that optical cells of asynchronous transfer mode can be stored and processed at high speed without the restriction of processing time for a high speed network architecture, wherein an internal switch of the apparatus would be controlled by extracting optically the cell pointer indicating starting point by using a high speed optical buffer with terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplex (Terahetz Optical Asymmetric Demultiplexer) in order to avoid a collision of each cell which is transmitted on a same channel especially at the high speed network.

Optical buffer utilizing a cell pointer

An optical asynchronous transfer mode ATM switch for recovering the limitation of processing capacity and performing large capacity of switching is disclosed. The ATM switch includes wavelength division multiplexing/time division multiplexing conversion modules for demultiplexing wavelength multiplexed optical channels through transmission links of respective input terminals of a switch to convert them into a primary wavelength for routing to their respective channels and compressing to time division multiplexing for preventing collision between cells, a first router for routing the respective cells which are converted into a primary wavelength by the wavelength division multiplexing/time division multiplexing conversion modules to assign the first destination, time division multiplexing/wavelength division multiplexing conversion modules for demultiplexing the channel signals routed by the first router, decompressing into original signals to convert them into wavelength to be routed for final destination and compressing them again to prevent collision between cells, and second routers for routing the decompressed signals from the time division multiplexing/wavelength division multiplexing conversion modules to the final destination.

Large capacity optical ATM switch

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Seoul, South Korea

Su Mi Chang