Title :
Enabling technologies for optical Ethernet services
Author :
Smith, Graham H.
Author_Institution :
Internet Photonics Inc., Shrewsbury, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Optical Ethernet services are now being extensively deployed within access and metropolitan networks. This paper will discuss some of the potential service offerings enabled by optical Ethernet and the relevant architectures and technologies required to support them.
Keywords :
metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; access networks; architectures; enabling technologies; metropolitan networks; optical Ethernet services; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Costs; Electronic switching systems; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Maintenance; Optical fiber networks; SONET; WDM networks;
Conference_Titel :
All-Optical Networking: Existing and Emerging Architecture and Applications/Dynamic Enablers of Next-Generation Optical Communications Systems/Fast Optical Processing in Optical Transmission/VCSEL and
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7378-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2002.1027546
