A Challenge to Access/Backbone Integrated Network

Hironari MATSUDA
Takuya KAMINOGOU
Tadahiko YASUI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E90-B    No.8    pp.1960-1967
Publication Date: 2007/08/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.8.1960
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section SURVEY PAPER (Special Section on Feature Topics on Latest Trends in Optical Networks)
Category: Systems and Technologies
Keyword: 
circuit-switched,  GMPLS,  WDM PON,  access/backbone integrated network,  

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Summary: 
An integration of the access/backbone network is expected to become indispensable in the future. We analyze the current and future optical networks and we describe the promising technologies. GMPLS architecture in backbone networks and WDM PON architecture in access networks will play the most important roles. We overview recent studies on the access/backbone integrated network to achieve guaranteed QoS. We also describe the developed system architecture as a milestone toward the access/backbone integrated network.