Glimmerglass Optical Switches Deliver at Asia's Premier Internet Event
Showed GMPLS control of 40Gb/s Data Streams between Core IP Routers - the Future Internet
Glimmerglass provided Intelligent Optical Switches for a major demonstration at ShowNet during Interop Tokyo, June 7-9th. The switches controlled 40 Gb/s light paths between a core router in the ShowNet Network Operation Center (NOC) at Makuhari Messe and another core router located 40km away in the NTT Otemachi building, supplying half of the Internet connectivity for ShowNet.
The Glimmerglass Intelligent Optical Switches, integrated with GMPLS control functionality, rapidly established massive bandwidth connections between a Cisco CRS-1 core router and a Juniper T640 core router over the 40 km distance. The combination of these core routers and Glimmerglass photonic crossconnects working together using GMPLS enabled network engineers to redirect 40Gb/s traffic flows, the model for economically reducing network congestion and improving network reliability.ShowNet is an annual highlight of Interop Tokyo, connecting all exhibitors through a full-scale NOC, connected to the Internet. Historically it has featured some of the industry’s newest, most powerful and reliable technologies. ShowNet enables exhibitors to demonstrate and verify the workability and interoperability of their products, offering buyers an authentic experience of commercially available solutions within a high-speed, heterogeneous network environment.
The diagram below shows the full Internet connectivity for ShowNet, including Glimmerglass control of the redundant 40Gb/s links. Click on the diagram to see a larger version in more detail.
"We are pleased to have been a key participant in this demonstration that showed the overwhelming benefits of optical switching in the future Internet,” said Robert Lundy, CEO of Glimmerglass.
“Streaming interactive video for millions of broadband subscribers will require an Internet that can dynamically reallocate bandwidth flows,” said Naoaki Yamanaka, Ph.D., IEEE fellow and professor of information and computer science at Keio University. “ShowNet brings together the industry’s leading equipment suppliers to demonstrate how the Internet can economically scale to meet this demand.”
