Title :
Protection in Core Packet Networks: Layer 1 or Layer 3?
Author :
Batchellor, C.R. ; Gerstel, O.
Author_Institution :
Core Routing Business Unit, Cisco Systems, 275 E. Tasman, San Jose, California 95134 USA, rbatchel@cisco.com
Abstract :
This paper studies protection strategies for IP core networks and finds that, counter to previous work, intelligent protection at the router level can reduce the overall network price and bandwidth as compared to TDM protection schemes.
Keywords :
Costs; Peer to peer computing; Protection; Routing; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing; Traffic control; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801089
