Performance Evaluation of Different High Speed LANs Connected by Optical Cross Connect and Couplers in Optical Networks

This paper presents an analysis of optical cross connect and couplers of high speed LAN in optical networks. In addition, simulation results of this paper compare the performance of high speed LAN with respect to the utilization of both optical cross connect and coupler. The delay and collisions occur in both networks have been examined. We have observed the performance and effect of both networks in case of sending and receiving frames. If the frame size is constant 1500 bytes then the Traffic Received, Delay and Collision is high. But if we reduce the frame size from 1500 to 256 bytes, the performance is improved. The performance metrics used in this work are: Delay, Traffic Sink, Traffic Source, Collision and Packet Size. The simulation results show a good approximation of data traffic observed in the optical network.