Research Article
Challenges and Trends in Optical Networking: A Bottom-Up Approach
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769126, author={Paulo Monteiro and Joao Pedro and Silvia Pato and Joao Gomes and Rui Morais and Joao Santos and Rui Meleiro and Harald Rohde and Rudolf Winkelmann}, title={Challenges and Trends in Optical Networking: A Bottom-Up Approach}, proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={BROADNETS}, year={2010}, month={5}, keywords={All-optical processing; passive optical networks; optical switching; optical-wireless convergence; traffic monitoring and analysis.}, doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769126} }- Paulo Monteiro
Joao Pedro
Silvia Pato
Joao Gomes
Rui Morais
Joao Santos
Rui Meleiro
Harald Rohde
Rudolf Winkelmann
Year: 2010
Challenges and Trends in Optical Networking: A Bottom-Up Approach
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769126
Abstract
Future bandwidth-intensive services, which will have a wide impact on our daily lives, from entertainment, to business and health-care, demand high capacity, flexible, resilient and secure underlying networks. Simultaneously, rising energy costs and climate change concerns are increasing the pressure to adopt power-efficient solutions in communication networks. Most of these requirements are best fulfilled with optical networks, which are expected to provide the targeted high capacities together with an increasing number of functionalities, leaving behind the label of “dumb pipe” associated to them in early deployments. This paper presents an overview of the challenges and some of the trends in optical networking, covering developments in multiple layers of the protocol stack, from the physical up to the application layer, and aimed at different network segments, from the access to the core network.
