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Wednesday
Aug222012

Briefing: Flexible elastic-bandwidth networks 

Vendors and service providers are implementing the first examples of flexible, elastic-bandwidth networks. Infinera and Microsoft detailed one such network at the Layer123 Terabit Optical and Data Networking conference held earlier this year.

Optical networking expert Ioannis Tomkos of the Athens Information Technology Center explains what is flexible, elastic bandwidth.

Part 1: Flexible elastic bandwidth


"We cannot design anymore optical networks assuming that the available fibre capacity is abundant" 

Prof. Tomkos

 

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