Benefits of Optical Label Switching

• Efficiently uses the transport media by dynamically multiplexing packets onto wavelengths, fibers, or channels
  • Dynamic bandwidth provisioning and services with packet granularity
  • Improved network bandwidth utilization for data services as compared to today’s OXC circuit switched network
  • Greater scalability than current IP routers based on electronic processing technologies

• Reduces network capex
  • Low cost, optical packet aware core interfaces enable true optical packet networking
  • Consolidation of router and OXC functions into a single platform

• Provides a platform for transparent network services
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) services
  • Optical circuit services
  • Optical packet/burst services

Optical Packet/Burst over WDM Network

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