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
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