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On the Throughput-Cost Tradeoff of Multi-Tiered Optical Network Architectures
Overview This paper conducts a throughput-cost study of several optical network architectures: Optical Flow Switching (OFS), Tell-and-Go (TaG), Electronic Packet Switching (EPS), and Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS). The simple, multi-tiered optical network that the paper consider comprises two groups of users, each in a distinct Metropolitan-Area Network (MAN), which wish to communicate over a Wide-Area Network (WAN). This network cost model focuses on initial capital expenditure: transceiver, switching, routing, and amplification costs. This results indicate that: OFS is the most scalable architecture of all, in that it is most cost-efficient when the average user data rate is high and the number of users in the network is large.
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2006 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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