Bandwidth trading-a business case for ASON?

Author

Iselt, Andreas ; Kirstädter, Andreas ; Chahine, Rayane

Author_Institution

Corp. Technol., Inf. & Commun., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

fYear

2004

fDate

13-16 June 2004

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

68

Abstract

During the last years bandwidth has been becoming more and more a commodity. Several network operators compete for customers with comparable offerings. This initialized the introduction of bandwidth brokers or traders. Unfortunately, their business models where not very successful in the past. Besides the overall economic weakness at the moment we identify some generic and technical reasons for this. Moreover we show that with novel automation technologies like GMPLS or ASON/ASTN some of these problems can be alleviated. Possible operational models show how future bandwidth brokers or traders could be organised.

Keywords

SONET; bandwidth allocation; business communication; multiprotocol label switching; optical fibre networks; telecommunication network management; ASON; ASTN; GMPLS; automation technologies; bandwidth trading; generalised multiprotocol label switching; network operators; Automatic control; Automation; Bandwidth; Companies; Computer aided software engineering; Optical fiber networks; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication control; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium. NETWORKS 2004, 11th International

Print_ISBN

3-8007-2840-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NETWKS.2004.1341815

Filename

1341815