Optical services over the intelligent optical network.

Optical networks are growing at unprecedented rates to accommodate the explosion in data traffic brought on by new Internet and enterprise applications. Coupled with this growth has been the introduction of client devices (e.g., routers, storage devices, and content servers) at the network edge oper...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Communications magazine 39, 9 (2001).
Main Author:	Benjamin, D.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Internet. Client devices. Content servers. Customized optical services. Data traffic. Enterprise applications. Intelligent optical network. Network architecture. Network deployment. Network management. Optical line rates. Optical services. Optical transport economics. Optical transport networks. Routers. Service management technologies. Storage devices. Traffic scaling.