Autonomously Controlled Multiprotocol Wavelength Switching Network for Internet Backbones

摘要

In order that they fully support human activities, new network services and applications are overwhelming conventional ones, such as telephony, facsimile, and telegraph. Demands for digital networks are exploding, not only in terms of quantity but also quality. Nobody can predict where these demands will lead. Traffic engineer- ing, which is impossible in pure Internet protocol (IP)-based networks, is recognized as being indispensable for quality of service (QoS) con- trol.