Next-generation optical network IP layer intelligent and optical layer technology integration

Author: (Austria) Thomas Schmuzer; Gong Qian et al.
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: The explosive growth of Internet-based services has posed unprecedented challenges to traditional transmission networks, leading to significant changes in their business models, traffic patterns, and operational aspects. Existing transmission networks are evolving toward multi-service networks, enabling the transmission of new IP services at rates of at least 1 Gbit/s. In terms of service provision, the approach has shifted from connection-oriented, fixed-configuration methods to connectionless, dynamically provisioned IP services. Looking at recent developments and the trends in networking technology, IP has become the only protocol suitable for operation over all media. The future network model will be an intelligent fusion of optical transmission and IP to meet the ever-growing demands for network performance and management capabilities. This book provides an in-depth and systematic introduction to every aspect of next-generation optical IP networks, including network construction concepts, standardization progress, new technologies, and networking applications. The main content includes: current and future operational network structures; networking solutions that eliminate intermediate layers in backbone networks; the fundamentals of optical networking technology—WDM, DWDM, data transmission technologies, and network survivability issues; control plane technologies in optical networks—static IP, dynamic IP, and integrated IP structures; MPLS technology that enables optical IP networks to have powerful traffic engineering capabilities; the structure, elements, and applications of the new multi-protocol wavelength label switching (MPLmS) model; case studies on optical network design and applications, such as enterprise storage networks, ISP networks, and operational networks. This book is suitable for a broad range of science and technology workers, engineering technicians engaged in optical IP network construction, as well as for faculty and students in communication engineering programs at universities.