White Paper Intelligent Optical Switching and Dynamic Lightpath Provisioning for Research Networks CoreDirector Functional Overview Introduction OPTICAL SWITCHING IS BECOMING A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF RESEARCH AND OTHER NETWORKS that demand real-time provisioning of Gb/s and 10G bandwidth. Intelligent ...

... intelligent optical networks. Process Automation FlexSelect OS routing and signaling intelligence incorporates developing standards in the IETF (GMPLS), ITU (G.ASON) and the OIF (O-UNI/E-NNI) and provides real-time resource inventory discovery and database synchronization, intelligent mapping of service ...

... and implement extensions far beyond current Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) and Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) internal control plane (I-NNI) standards. Value-added intelligent functionality available today includes: » FastMesh® : implements CoreDirector's mesh topology ...

... core network for IP/MPLS routers from leading vendors of routers, switching and ADM equipment. Employing Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) for signaling and routing, CoreDirector shares network topology information with the various vendor products to drive the automated creation and ...

... (ASTN) A network that allows traffic paths to be set up automatically through a switched network. The term ASTN is often used interchangeably with GMPLS (Generalized MPLS). Availability The amount of time that a system is available during time periods when it is expected to be available. Availability ...

... Sobieski, director of research initiatives for Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) and project manager of the DRAGON (Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks) project. "In addition, our organization's collaboration with Ciena via the DRAGON project, which is investigating the use of optical ...

... 1 up to Layer 3. This approach is the focus of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) effort on Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS). The goal here is to achieve major improvements in Layer 3 network performance by equipping routers with knowledge about the underlying transport network ...

White Paper Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade Introduction TODAY, VIRTUALLY ALL NEW END-USER and most new machine-tomachine applications are designed around the Internet Protocol (IP). Within 99 percent of Local Area Networks (LANs), Ethernet is used to carry those IP packets ...

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... of OTN see it as an integral part of the automatic, dynamic network of the future, built on a set of common interfaces and managed by a G.ASTN/GMPLS distributed signalling and control plane. The benefits of OTN The benefits of a fully realized OTN to network operators are many, and include: · More efficient ...