National Transparent Optical Network Consortium (NTONC)

Abstract

This final report describes the National Transparent Optical Network Consortium (NTONC) efforts in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport, switching technologies and control strategies required to develop, deploy and operate the terabit per second optical networks needed to meet requirements of Next Generation Internet applications. The report also describes NTONC's "Flat Network Architecture" research for very high capacity networks. The objective of this work was to devise a network to serve as the Next-Generation Internet (NGI) with minimum inner-to-outer capacity ratio, linear capacity expansion, low incremental delay, no data loss, ease of access, automatic new user registration, ease of network engineering, fast recovery from failure conditions, and self-governance. The report concludes with a summary of work performed in the areas of ActiveNets/Openet research, sensor deployment and networking research and proof of concept, MEMs CAD networking research, SuperNet Analysis and fiber expansion in the Washington DC area.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2004
• Accession Number: ADA428684

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• Paul Daspit

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