A view of telecommunications network evolution

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 74-81

  El Sayed, Mohamed ^a   Jaffe, Jeffrey ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL SWITCHES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURES;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0036903904     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2002.1106163     Document Type: Review

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