A flexible design of packets over SONET or directly over fiber
01 January 2000
The explosive growth in Internet traffic has created the need to transport packets such as IP paradigm over high-speed links. Packets over SONET or directly over optical fiber technology is, therefore, being deployed today in backbone networks to provide efficient, cost-effective, high-speed transport between fast routers. In this paper, a flexible design and implementation of this technology has been proposed. Our design can support up to OC-48 (2.4 Gb/s) data rate with negligible system latency, which is very suitable for real-time multimedia applications