Title :
Directions of next generation transport network development
Author :
Gladisch, Andreas ; Westphal, F. -Joachim
Author_Institution :
Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Next generation optical networks have to deal with four major areas of interdependency between optical technologies and network architecture: (1) the increase of capacity and improvement of efficiency (2) the optimization of traffic structure; (3) the optimization of architecture and topology (4) the minimization of complexity.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network topology; architecture optimization; network capacity; network improvement; next generation optical network; next generation transport network development; topology optimization; traffic structure optimization; Internet; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Optimization; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3