On the value of optical-layer reconfigurability in IP-over-WDM lightwave networks

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1097-1099

  Chaudhuri, Sid ^a,b   Goldstein, Evan ^a,b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Tellium Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; ROUTERS; SWITCHING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BIG FAT ROUTER; LIGHTWAVE NETWORKS; MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING; OPTICAL LAYER CROSSCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0343006788     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.868020     Document Type: Article

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