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Feasibility of Flow-Based Optical Provisioning in GEANT
Overview Traditionally the difference between telephone and data networks has been quite sharply demarcated. Since a telephone call is characterized by a set up time that is negligible compared with the call duration, it makes sense to allocate it into an end-to-end circuit. On the other hand, data transmission has to be routed on a packet-by-packet basis to be cost effective. Historically, telephone calls were injected into circuits at the edge of the network, while data traffic was sent to an IP router towards a packet switched architecture. Today this natural separation has been blurred by the convergence of many heterogeneous applications into the Internet network.
| Publisher | Optical Society of America | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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