12 May 2005 00:15
RFC 4054 on Impairments and Other Constraints on Optical Layer Routing
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RFC 4054
Title: Impairments and Other Constraints on Optical Layer
Routing
Author(s): J. Strand, Ed., A. Chiu, Ed.
Status: Informational
Date: May 2005
Mailbox: jls <at> research.att.com, chiu <at> research.att.com
Pages: 29
Characters: 73327
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-ipo-impairments-04.txt
URL: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4054.txt
Optical networking poses a number challenges for Generalized
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS). Fundamentally, optical
technology is an analog rather than digital technology whereby the
optical layer is lowest in the transport hierarchy and hence has an
intimate relationship with the physical geography of the network.
This contribution surveys some of the aspects of optical networks
that impact routing and identifies possible GMPLS responses for each:
(1) Constraints arising from the design of new software controllable
network elements, (2) Constraints in a single all-optical domain
without wavelength conversion, (3) Complications arising in more
complex networks incorporating both all-optical and opaque
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