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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
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Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition

by Ivan Kaminow, Tingye Li, Alan E. Willner
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
33h 42m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Optical Fiber Telecommunications VB, 5th Edition
16.2 OPTICAL BURST SWITCHING TECHNOLOGIES
Second-generation optical networking is based on reconfigurable OCS where
lightpath provisioning processes require assurances in meeting service layer agree-
ments based on reserving available resources including protection paths/links. The
overlay data communication network (DCN) uses a data communication channel
(DCC) to support communications for provisioning the lightpaths. While OCS can
support quality-of-service (QoS) assurances associated with the lightpaths, provi-
sioning of lightpaths can take relatively a long time (many seconds or minutes),
and it is not uncommon that the service providers take several months in manually
provisioning lightpaths. OBS networks [4, 5] initially emerged as very fast ...
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ISBN: 9780123741721