BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-87-1185
       ENTRY:: April 24, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: Blazenet: A Photonic Implementable Wide-Area Network
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Haas, Z.
      AUTHOR:: Cheriton, D. R.
        DATE:: December 1987
       PAGES:: 24
    ABSTRACT:: High-performance wide-area networks are required to
               interconnect clusters of computers connected by local area
               and metropolitan area networks. Optical fiber technology
               provides long distance channels in the multi-gigabit per
               second range. The challenge is to provide switching nodes
               that handle these data rates with minimum delay, and at a
               reasonable cost.

               In this paper, we describe a packet switching network,
               christened Blazenet, that provides low delay and has minimal
               memory requirements. It can be extended to support multicast
               and priority delivery. Such a network can revolutionize the
               opportunities for distributed command and control,
               information and resources sharing, real-time conferencing,
               and wide-area parallel computation, to mention but a few
               applications.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950424]
         END:: STAN//CS-TR-87-1185