Photonic MPLS Router to Create Bandwidth-Abundant IP Networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2851-2862

  Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Noguchi, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Shimano, Katsuhiro ^a   Kawai, Takeshi ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a,c   Sahara, Akio ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuo ^a   Okamoto, Satoru ^a   Goh, Takashi ^a   Takigawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Koga, Masafumi ^a   Sato, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a NTT Network Innovation Laboratories   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internet protocol (IP); Label switching; Network management and control; Optical communication; Photonic network

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; ROUTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SWITCHING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP); LABEL SWITCHING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; PHOTONIC NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 3142759076     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.819133     Document Type: Article

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