Title :
Economic study of transport methods for ethernet services in the metropolitan network
Author :
Thiagarajan, Sashisekaran ; Blair, Loudon ; Ranganathan, Raghu ; Berthold, Joseph
Author_Institution :
Ciena Corp., Linthicum, MD, USA
Abstract :
Two popular metro network architectures are compared using a hypothetical, representative metro network model. Costs of provisioning near-term and long-term traffic are analyzed. Oversubscription gains due to statistical multiplexing of packet traffic are measured.
Keywords :
local area networks; metropolitan area networks; multiplexing; optical fibre LAN; packet switching; statistical analysis; telecommunication traffic; ethernet service; hypothetical metro network model; long-term traffic; metro network architecture; metropolitan network; near-term traffic; packet traffic; representative metro network model; statistical multiplexing; transport method;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
