The rationale of the current optical networking initiatives

  • Authors:
  • Cees de Laat;Erik Radius;Steven Wallace

  • Affiliations:
  • Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands;SURFnet, Utrecht, The Netherlands;Advanced Network Management Lab, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems - iGrid 2002
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The future of networking is to move to an entirely optical infrastructure. Several leading National Research Networking organizations are creating test-beds to pilot the new paradigm. This paper explores some thoughts about the different usage models of optical networks. Different classes of users are identified. The services, required by the Internet traffic from those different classes of users, are analysed and a differentiated Internet architecture is proposed to minimize the cost per transported packet for the whole architecture.