Abstract:
The switching is an important part of the
telecommunication networks over the years for
transferring and handling voice and data through
the traditional switching nodes existing in the
telecommunication networks. Various developments
were seen in the recent years which resulted in
increasing data transfer capabilities of the
transmission networks all over the world, however
the switching speed and techniques are still
remained unchanged in most of the cases that
neither match the data transfer capacities nor the
expanding demand of the networks in the near
future. Some switching technologies are still in the
developing stage, of them two are more obvious:
Optical Packet Switching (OPS) and Optical Burst
Switching (OBS). In this paper, I tried to compare
different paradigm of these two main developments,
keeping in mind that the OPS would see rapid
development in the near future than the OBS,
though OBS would the ultimate solution of
switching for the bulk volume of telephone and data
traffic
