Service level agreement and provisioning in optical networks.

Service level agreement and provisioning in optical networks.

This article proposes a service level agreement applied to the optical domain (O-SLA), which is expected to be the near- and long-term network technology of the great bandwidth capacity offered by optical devices. After an exposition of the rationale behind an optical SLA, parameters that could be i...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Communications magazine 42, 1 (2004).
Main Author: Fawaz, W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
GMPLS.
SLA.
Bandwidth capacity.
Generalized multiprotocol label switching management.
Optical networks.
Optical service level agreement.
Provisioning process.
Service types.
Traffic.
Wavelength.