• DocumentCode
    2989575
  • Title

    Protection in Core Packet Networks: Layer 1 or Layer 3?

  • Author

    Batchellor, C.R. ; Gerstel, O.

  • Author_Institution
    Core Routing Business Unit, Cisco Systems, 275 E. Tasman, San Jose, California 95134 USA, rbatchel@cisco.com
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-28 Sept. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    This paper studies protection strategies for IP core networks and finds that, counter to previous work, intelligent protection at the router level can reduce the overall network price and bandwidth as compared to TDM protection schemes.
  • Keywords
    Costs; Peer to peer computing; Protection; Routing; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing; Traffic control; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes, France
  • Print_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-2-912328-39-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801089
  • Filename
    4801089