Title :
Interconnection of metropolitan and backbone networks
Author :
Wagner, R.E. ; Nederlof, L. ; Vaughn, M. ; Maesschalck, S. De ; Cotter, D. ; Hemenway, B.
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., NY, USA
Abstract :
As Internet traffic continues to grow, eventually dominating voice traffic, the network economics and traffic granularities may become favorable for merging the metropolitan core with the long-distance backbone network, to form an integrated 10 Gb/s wavelength-routed network architecture.
Keywords :
Internet telephony; integrated voice/data communication; internetworking; metropolitan area networks; storage area networks; telecommunication network routing; time division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Internet traffic; backbone network; integrated wavelength-routed network architecture; metropolitan network; network economics; traffic granularities; voice traffic; Cities and towns; IP networks; Internet; Optical fibers; Radio access networks; Space technology; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248352
