Increasing scope for circuit switching in the optical internet

Author

Zukerman, Moshe

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China

fYear

2009

fDate

June 28 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper points out the benefit and scope of circuit switching in the future optical Internet. Given the increasingly excessive energy consumption by IP-based Internet routers which may lead to a constraint on Internet growth, the profile of Internet traffic and the high utilization achievable by dense wavelength division multiplexing, a conclusion can be made that efficient design of telecommunications network will be based on increasing the role of circuit switching in the future Internet.

Keywords

Internet; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; IP-based Internet router; Internet growth; Internet traffic; circuit switching; dense wavelength division multiplexing; energy consumption; optical Internet; telecommunications network; Energy consumption; IP networks; Internet; Optical packet switching; Packet switching; Switches; Switching circuits; Telecommunication switching; Telecommunication traffic; Wavelength division multiplexing; Internet power consumption; Internet traffic profile; circuit switching; fractional lambda switching; optical Internet; optical flow switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Azores

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4825-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4827-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2009.5185029

Filename

5185029