Architectures and protocols that enable new applications on opticalnetworks.

Architectures and protocols that enable new applications on opticalnetworks.

This article first discusses how advances in networking architectures and protocols can complement advances in optical communications research to increase the overall value of optical networks by enabling more applications. A review of existing optical networking solutions is then provided along wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 39, 3 (2001).
Main Author: Veeraraghavan, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
WDM.
File transfers.
Hardware-implementable signaling protocol.
Multihop wavelength-routed networks.
Networking architectures.
Networking protocols.
Optical communications research.
Optical networking solutions.
Optical networks.
Routing protocol.
Single-hop wavelength-routed networks.
Transport protocol.
Wavelength-division multiplexing.