Multi-rate services: challenges in network design

Author

Basu, Kalyan ; Maveddat, Payam ; Chen, Jin

Author_Institution

BNR, Richardson, TX, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

28 Nov- 2 Dec 1994

Firstpage

644

Abstract

The current public switched telephone networks (PSTN) are engineered for services based on a single 64 kilobits per second (kbits/s) channel or DS-0. Demand for more bandwidth has created a need for new advanced services based on multiple DS-0s for a single call. This service will have significantly different traffic characteristics than traditional narrowband (NB) calls. To accommodate this multi-rate (also known as wideband) functionality on current networks, some of the existing network engineering rules (real-time capacity, customer access trunk engineering, inter-office trunk engineering) will require changes

Keywords

switching networks; telecommunication services; telecommunication switching; telecommunication traffic; telephone networks; PSTN; bandwidth; customer access trunk engineering; inter-office trunk engineering; multi-rate services; multi-rate switching system; network design; network engineering rules; public switched telephone networks; real-time capacity; traffic characteristics; wideband network; Bandwidth; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Costs; ISDN; Intelligent networks; Narrowband; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication traffic; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1994. GLOBECOM '94. Communications: The Global Bridge., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1820-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1994.513597

Filename

513597