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Multihop Waveband Routed Networks for Cost-effective Metropolitan Area Network Scaling

• Tags:
• man,
• traffic,
• metropolitan,
• meshed

Overview Many existing metropolitan networks are based on hubbed rings, representative of the dominant traffic patterns when these networks were installed. Given the exponential growth of data traffic, these networks are inherently challenged in their scalability, especially as the traffic demand becomes more meshed in nature. For example, the mirroring of IP sites at multiple locations within a metropolitan or regional core reduces the need to route this traffic to a long-haul interconnect hub site.

This paper attempts to establish some of these limits by comparing the network cost vs. network capacity limitations for the particular situation of uniform meshed traffic. It focuses on multihop networks, with band routing being postulated as a cost effective means of balancing initial network costs and future scaling operational costs.

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