Enhancing transport networks with Internet protocols

Author

Chapman, Alan ; Kung, H.T.

Author_Institution

Adv. Technol. Center, Nortel, USA

Volume

36

Issue

5

fYear

1998

fDate

5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

104

Abstract

Transport networks are facing new challenges and opportunities because of the explosive growth of data traffic. Besides having to meet the ever-increasing bandwidth demand, transport networks need to provide new functionalities for the support of data applications. For example, they should provide elastic data pipes which guarantee minimum bandwidths but also allow expansion when extra bandwidth is available. They should support instant and automatic discovery and configuration of layer 3 nodes which, traditionally, is possible only for LANs. Enhanced transport systems with inherent packet multiplexing can meet these challenges. It will be natural to use Internet protocols and technologies to implement these packet transport systems, and thereby reuse much of the existing Internet infrastructure already widely deployed

Keywords

Internet; data communication; packet switching; transport protocols; Internet infrastructure; Internet protocols; bandwidth demand; data applications; data traffic; elastic data pipes; enhanced transport systems; functionalities; layer 3 nodes; minimum bandwidths; packet multiplexing; packet transport systems; transport networks; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Explosives; Frame relay; IP networks; Network topology; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing; Transport protocols; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.668258

Filename

668258