EtherBurst – Revolutionizing Optical Networks for Packet Services

EtherBurst^® is the first commercially available Ring Optical Burst Switch (Ring OBS) system and the only such system in production today. EtherBurst switches individual optical packets rather than entire optical wavelengths, making it an ideal technology choice for building optical packet transport networks to support the packet-based Ethernet, IPTV and mobile broadband services.

EtherBurst is fundamentally changing the economics of optical networking through its optical packet switching and the ability to dynamically allocate bandwidth capacity based upon traffic demand. The blending of Ethernet intelligence with DWDM optical packet switching technology allows statistical multiplexing at the optical layer and real time sharing of the network capacity among services — eliminating the stranded bandwidth that is wasted on under-utilized wavelengths in traditional optical transport networks.

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