Title :
Access and metro technologies for services, transport, and domain hand-off
Author :
Smith, Graham H.
Author_Institution :
Internet Photonics Inc., Shrewsbury, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Packet and TDM services, optical transport, and hand-off interfaces have been extensively deployed in various positions of access and metropolitan networks. This paper discusses the existing and new services, domain hand-offs, and transport options, and the architectures and technologies required to support them.
Keywords :
metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre subscriber loops; packet switching; telecommunication switching; time division multiplexing; TDM services; access networks; domain hand-off interfaces; metropolitan networks; optical transport; packet services; Bandwidth; Circuits; Costs; Electronic switching systems; Emulation; Ethernet networks; Information rates; Local area networks; SONET; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7888-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252913
