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Workshop: Delivering IP over Glass
The Complementary Economies of Optical Switching in Internet Transport
Will Russ
Senior Network Architect
Tellium, Inc.
Description:
Growth in Internet backbone demand has justified the development and deployment of
OC-48c and OC-192c router ports. Higher bit rate ports are, by themselves, less expensive
(per bit) to deploy, but going further and executing a newly possible architectural step
brings a complementary set of efficiencies that reduces transport costs. Is there really a
compelling economic reason to change the way these line rates are managed and transported?
This presentation describes an architecture that reaps immediate economic advantages by
reducing spare capacity ratios and provisioning costs. It increases bandwidth utilization
by implementing an unprecedented plane of traffic engineering and without being held
hostage when newer generations of network elements become available or by any one vendor.
It uses standardized protocols to inter-operate from layer one to layer three.