The Graduate and The Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering
UPH present: Telelecture on "Towards All-Optical Packet Switch"

Background
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When we access the internet, the data are sent in form of many small
packets being dynamically and smartly switched by routers. Due to the
consistently increasing internet traffic, electronic routers will soon
become insufficient, especially at the peak hours at major internet
exchanges. Electronic routers also consume a huge amount of power.
Since the backbone of internet network is already optics based,
switching the packet directly in optical domain will be a smart
choice. Optics has a potential to decrease the power consumptions
significantly. How do optical communication techniques code the packet
label? How do optical devices recognize the address of the packet and
route it to a proper destination? Let's learn from a researcher who is
working in this area.

Details of the telelecture
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Topic : Towards All-Optical Packet Switch
Guest Lecturer : Dr. Eduward Tangdiongga, Electro-Optical
Communications Group, COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University
of Technology, The Netherlands
Date/Time : Friday, 21 November 2008, 18:30 WIB – 20:30 WIB (please
be on-time)
Venue : UPH Karawaci Campus: Telecommunication Laboratory, 2nd Floor,
B-Building, Room B-260
UPH Slipi Campus : MTE Lecture room, 8th Floor.

This free of charge telelecture is compulsory for students who attend
the "Optoelectronics" course in S1 TE or "Optical Communications"
course in S2 MTE of UPH. Other students or staffs, as well as
interested public are welcome. But due to limited seats, please
contact Cicilia (e-mail: cicilia.kadia(at)uph.edu) for reservation.
Please clearly state whether you want to join the lecture at Karawaci
or Slipi.

Who is the lecturer?
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Dr. Eduward Tangdiongga, born in Makassar, got his MSc. degree in
electrical engineering in 1994 from TU Eindhoven (TU/e) on planar
antenna arrays. The same year he joined the COBRA Research Institute,
working on the topic of crosstalk performance of multi-wavelength
optical cross-connects. This work was carried out in the European
Union (EU) sponsored projects (Broadband LIghtwave Sources and
Systems) and APEX (Advanced Photonics Experimental X-connect). He
received for this work his PhD. degree in 2001. From April 2001 till
December 2003 he worked with British Telecom and Siemens in the EU
project FASHION (ultraFAst Switching in HIgh-speed Optical
time-division multiplexed Networks) for realization of 160 Gbit/s
all-optical add-drop switch and all-optical 10 and 40 GHz subrate
clock recovery. In 2005 he was on a sabbatical leave at Fujitsu
Research Labs in Atsugi-Japan working on pulse compression using
nonlinear fibers and nonlinear switching using quantum-dot
semiconductor optical amplifiers. Back from Japan, he led until 2007 a
Dutch national project on 1 Tb/s transmission and switching. He is
currently working as assistant professor at TU/e in the field of
access and short-to-medium range optical networks. He is a member of
technical program committee of LEOS Annual Meetings. He is supervising
2 postdocs, 4 PhD students, and several MSc students.

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