TY  - SER
AU  - Green, Paul E.
TI  - An all-optical computer network: lessons learned
KW  - OPTICAL COMPUTER NETWORK
N1  - Rainbow-1, an all-optical WDMA network capable of supporting up to 1000 nodes, each operating at 1 Gb/s sustained bit rate, is described. The expression all-optical stems from the fact that in these systems the path between nodes has electronic signal-handling only at the two ends. The path between nodes may be topologically complex, but it is all optical
ER  -