OLS Network Architecture Goals
Economic and scalable packet/burst switching in the optical layer
Multi-service, transparent optical networking platform
- Flexible link granularity for circuit and packet services
- Payload transparency to enable protocol independent networking
- Interoperable edge interfaces support multiple services
- Asynchronous, bandwidth on demand network architecture
Meet future traffic needs with dynamic bandwidth on demand
- Unpredictable traffic patterns and load distributions
- Optical packet routing for bursty core networks
Real time, low latency service delivery with distributed intelligence
- No buffering in network core