Design of storage area network based on metro WDM networking

Storage Area Networks (SANs) have become an essential part of today’s enterprise computing. The paper reports the design of SANs based on metro Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks technologies. It reviews related SAN technologies. It also presents analysis and simulation results of a proposed architecture. Throughput, delay and packet dropping probability results are presented under Poisson and self-similar traffic.

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