Optical burst switching a viable solution for terabit IP backbone.

Wavelength-division multiplexing has emerged as an important physical layer technology. Optical transmission provides a physical layer capable of carrying bits at the speed at the order of a gigabit per second. Optical burst switching is proposed to overcome the shortcomings of conventional WDM depl...

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Опубликовано в::	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 14, 6 (2000).
Главный автор:	Verma, S.
Формат:	Статья
Язык:	English
Предметы:	IP QoS mechanisms. IP layer. MAC layer. MPLS-type technique. OBS WDM transmission core. SONET/SDH. Burst assembly. Burst scheduling. Control packets. Data bursts forwarding. Electronic speed bottlenecks. Label switched paths. Medium access control layer. Offset setting/traffic shaping. Optical backbone. Optical burst switching. Optical transmission. Physical layer technology. Quality of service. Terabit IP backbone. Traffic engineering. Wavelength routing. Wavelength-division multiplexing.