CHIARO CONFIDENTIAL

Chiaro Networks

Dr. Eyal Shekel

March 2003

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Chiaro’s Enstara Overview

• Scalable capacity– 6.3 Tb/s capacity– 315X315 STM-64 equivalent– STM-1 thru STM–64 PoS, GigE

• Fully compatible protocols– Unicast: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS– Multicast: PIM, MBGP, MSDP– MPLS: RSVP-TE, LDP, FRR

• Quality of Service– 8 queue levels per port

• Stateful Assured Routing (STAR™) – Stateful protocol protection

extended to BGP, ISIS, OSPF, Multicast, and MPLS

• Partitions– Key for network consolidation

preserving operational boundaries

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Optical Switching – Electronic routing

• Scalable– Single to multi-chassis– Scale– Non-blocking crossbar – Single hop

• Deterministic latency– Single hop

• Programmable– “Soft” forwarding– ASICs with

programmable network processors

• Fault Tolerant– Hardware & software

GlobalGlobalArbitrationArbitration

CrossbarSwitch

Program-Program-mablemable

I/OI/O

Program-Program-mablemable

I/OI/O

Program-Program-mablemable

I/OI/O

Program-Program-mablemable

I/OI/O

Control PlaneControl Plane

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Introduction – Optical Switch Module

• 64x64 strictly non-blocking switch

• Optical Phase Array Technology

• Net switch-over time < 20nsec

• Typical Loss ~ -13dB

• Typical cross-talk ~ -30dB

• Full manufacturing line

• Fully integrated in IP router

• Over a year in production

• Telecordia compliance

• 64x64 strictly non-blocking switch

• Optical Phase Array Technology

• Net switch-over time < 20nsec

• Typical Loss ~ -13dB

• Typical cross-talk ~ -30dB

• Full manufacturing line

• Fully integrated in IP router

• Over a year in production

• Telecordia compliance

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Current GRID participation

Optical Switch

•LambdaGrid OptIPuter•GRID Testbed •Cal-(IT)2 •UCSD

www.calit2.netwww.chiaro.com