Re: Optical Crossconnects and IP

[Tony Mumm]

It seems that the goal is to apply IP packets right onto the
lambda windows.  But without any ability to provide IP QoS,
it seems like a point of diminishing return.

Hop-by-hop routing is on its way out....and not soon enough.

As for reinventing the virtual circuit, I don't think we can
get much lower than this.

-tm

 Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
    wrote
>
>> ** Disclaimer; I work for a vendor: PLURIS, but this question concerns a
>> personal curiosity that I have about OXCs. **
>
>Disclaimer: I do not work for a vendor: PLURIS
>
>> I also don't
>> see much NSP participation in the relevant standards bodies about signaling
>> in optical networks.
>
>Probably because the said standards bodies (and on-demand fiber capacity
>allocation in general) have little relevance to the NSPs and Internet
>backbones in general?
>
>--vadim
>
>PS I keep wondering why people keep reinventing virtual circuits.