• DocumentCode
    1377236
  • Title

    Photons and petabits [for Internet traffic]

  • Author

    Dettmer, Roger

  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    7/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    18
  • Abstract
    With Internet traffic doubling every few months, the author reports on one company´s plans for averting gridlock in cyberspace. As the demands on the network have soared, driven by the growth of new traffic types and an increasing competitive market place, system complexity is giving way to something more akin to incipient chaos. Market pull and technology push have combined to produce a multi-layered network architecture. This comprises an access layer, IP layer, ATM layer, SDH layer, all overlaid with an optical transport layer
  • Keywords
    Internet; asynchronous transfer mode; optical fibre networks; synchronous digital hierarchy; telecommunication traffic; ATM layer; IP layer; Internet traffic; SDH layer; access layer; competitive market place; multi-layered network architecture; optical transport layer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IEE Review
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0953-5683
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/ir:20000402
  • Filename
    866876
    • Link To Document
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