• DocumentCode
    398986
  • Title

    Interconnection of metropolitan and backbone networks

  • Author

    Wagner, R.E. ; Nederlof, L. ; Vaughn, M. ; Maesschalck, S. De ; Cotter, D. ; Hemenway, B.

  • Author_Institution
    Corning Inc., NY, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    23-28 March 2003
  • Firstpage
    479
  • Abstract
    As Internet traffic continues to grow, eventually dominating voice traffic, the network economics and traffic granularities may become favorable for merging the metropolitan core with the long-distance backbone network, to form an integrated 10 Gb/s wavelength-routed network architecture.
  • Keywords
    Internet telephony; integrated voice/data communication; internetworking; metropolitan area networks; storage area networks; telecommunication network routing; time division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Internet traffic; backbone network; integrated wavelength-routed network architecture; metropolitan network; network economics; traffic granularities; voice traffic; Cities and towns; IP networks; Internet; Optical fibers; Radio access networks; Space technology; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-746-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2003.1248352
  • Filename
    1248352