Traffic Grooming in Optical WDM Mesh Networks by Keyao Zhu , Hongyue Zhu , Biswanath MukherjeeEnglish | PDF | 2005 | 189 Pages | ISBN : 0387254323 | 11 MB
Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) tech nology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the Inter net infrastructure, and provide a scalable solution to support the bandwidth needs of future applications in the local and wide areas. In a waveleng- routed network, an optical channel, referred to as a lightpath, is set up between two network nodes for communication. Using WDM technology, an optical fiber link can support multiple non-overlapping wavelength channels, each of which can be operated at the data rate of 10 Gbps or 40 Gbps today.