Special Report: Next Generation Internet Applications
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE EVOLUTION OF OPTICAL
COMMUNICATIONS
The SONET standard supports
synchronous framing for data and overhead...
Optical Infrastructure
Components In an effort to realize...
Raman amplifiers, EDFAs,
and SOAs were all developed for the...
Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM) Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)...
Optical Gateways Migration
towards all-optical networks will begin...
Optical Dispersion
Compensation Longer wavelengths tend to propagate...
Optical Buffering Timing
contention surfaces when two input...
Deflection Routing
Deflection routing is a complement to...
This will allow for QoS
characteristics to be developed. There...
Optical Packet Switching
Optical Packet Switching (OPS) is...
Multiprotocol Lambda
Switching (MP S) Multiprotocol Lambda Switching (MP'S)...
Each advance in communications
and its associated service cycle drives...
There have been recent announcements
of Gigabit Ethernet wide area...
Even with 40 Gbps electronics,
the SONET multiplexer in Figure...
MP'S is gaining standards
support, but is still several years...
Signaling protocols will
route traffic through the data and physical...
Several outstanding issues
remain. First, current approaches to IP-over-DWDM...
All control planes will
be electronic until optical computing or...
Introduction of fiber optic
submarine cables revolutionized transoceanic communications.
Access networks evolved
from discrete copper cable systems, to T1
ATM is an attractive switching
platform in access networks because...
Green predicts optical access
networks will grow to 12 million...
Advances in data processing,
reduced regulation of the communications carriers
By April 1997, the carriers
no longer held reserves of
High-speed WAN routers
will see the most rapid growth.
Emerging Standards - Standards
are taking shape for the...
CONCLUSIONS
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