DocumentCode
450229
Title
Economic study of transport methods for ethernet services in the metropolitan network
Author
Thiagarajan, Sashisekaran ; Blair, Loudon ; Ranganathan, Raghu ; Berthold, Joseph
Author_Institution
Ciena Corp., Linthicum, MD, USA
Volume
4
fYear
2005
fDate
25-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
803
Abstract
Two popular metro network architectures are compared using a hypothetical, representative metro network model. Costs of provisioning near-term and long-term traffic are analyzed. Oversubscription gains due to statistical multiplexing of packet traffic are measured.
Keywords
local area networks; metropolitan area networks; multiplexing; optical fibre LAN; packet switching; statistical analysis; telecommunication traffic; ethernet service; hypothetical metro network model; long-term traffic; metro network architecture; metropolitan network; near-term traffic; packet traffic; representative metro network model; statistical multiplexing; transport method;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location
IET
ISSN
0537-9989
Print_ISBN
0-86341-543-1
Type
conf
Filename
1584205
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