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9/5/2003 1:53 PM EDT

Advanced Protocols


Innovation thrives in optical transports
When the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference opens today in Orlando, Fla., it will gaze out at a landscape parched by three years of drought in the optical-transport industry. When broadband end users and access carriers show few signs of a business upturn, what hope is there for equipment and carrier players in backbone markets still suffering from fiber overcapacity?


  • Upgrading to a real-time IP network
  • Sonet well-suited to carry storage traffic
  • Flow-based routing boosts MPLS service/a>


  • Optimizing access networks with layer 3 switching
  • The best is not always the fastest
  • G-MPLS mesh protection sans penalties
  • Clusters and IP make SANs go round





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