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US 2010/0061470 A1Published application
Sliceable router with packet over optical ofdm transmission
AssigneeNEC Laboratories America, Inc.
InventorsWei Wei, Ting Wang
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Abstract
A sliceable router includes a forwarding engine; a routing engine coupled to the forwarding engine; multiple virtual packet interfaces coupled to the forwarding engine, wherein the interfaces shares an optical orthogonal frequency-division multiple accesses (OFDMA)-based programmable transceiver for interface virtualization; and one or more physical packet interfaces coupled to the forwarding engine.
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A sliceable router, comprising:
- a. a forwarding engine;
- b. a routing engine coupled to the forwarding engine;
- c. a plurality of virtual packet interfaces coupled to the forwarding engine, wherein the interfaces share an optical orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA)-based programmable transceiver for interface virtualization;
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- d. one or more conventional physical packet interfaces coupled to the forwarding engine.
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