Role of Provider Strategies and Granularity in a Circuit-Packet Optical Choice-based Network

R Udechukwu, R Dutta, T Miyazawa… - 2018 Photonics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
R Udechukwu, R Dutta, T Miyazawa, H Harai
2018 Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC), 2018ieeexplore.ieee.org
Every advancement of optical technology provides new options to network providers in
competing with each other for customers' business, but also requires additional design and
operational decisions. Optical switches capable of using any given waveband channel for
either optical packet switching or circuit (lightpath) switching, such as OPCINet, provide such
an advance. We show that not only is the pricing strategy used by the provider critically
important in the utilization and performance of network resources, but that such decisions …
Every advancement of optical technology provides new options to network providers in competing with each other for customers' business, but also requires additional design and operational decisions. Optical switches capable of using any given waveband channel for either optical packet switching or circuit (lightpath) switching, such as OPCINet, provide such an advance. We show that not only is the pricing strategy used by the provider critically important in the utilization and performance of network resources, but that such decisions must consider the granularity (i.e. number of wavelengths in a waveband) of provisioning.
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