All-optical header processing in a 42.6Gb/s optoelectronic firewall
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Date
2011
Authors
Webb, Rod P.
Dailey, James M.
Manning, Robert J.
Maxwell, Graeme D.
Poustie, Alistair J.
Lardenois, Sébastien
Harmon, Robert
Harrison, James
Kopidakis, Georgios
Athanasopoulos, Elias
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IEEE
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Abstract
A novel architecture to enable future network security systems to provide effective protection in the context of continued traffic growth and the need to minimise energy consumption is proposed. It makes use of an all-optical pre-filtering stage operating at the line rate under software control to distribute incoming packets to specialised electronic processors. An experimental system that integrates software controls and electronic interfaces with an all-optical pattern recognition system has demonstrated the key functions required by the new architecture. As an example, the ability to sort packets arriving in a 42.6Gb/s data stream according to their service type was shown experimentally.
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Internet security , Integrated optics , Optical logic devices , Pattern matching
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Webb, R.P., Dailey, J.M., Manning, R.J., Maxwell, G.D., Poustie, A.J., Lardenois, S., Harmon, R., Harrison, J., Kopidakis, G., Athanasopoulos, E., Krithinakis, A. , Doukhan F. , Omar, M., Vaillant, D., Di Nallo, F., Koyabe, M., Di Cairano-Gilfedde C. (2011) 'All-Optical Header Processing in a 42.6Gb/s Optoelectronic Firewall'. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics In Quantum Electronics, (99), pp.1-8 doi: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2135337
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