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Future Service Adaptive Access/Aggregation Network Architecture

Hiroki IKEDA, Hidetoshi TAKESHITA, Satoru OKAMOTO

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The emergence of new services in the cloud computing era has made smooth service migration an important issue in access networks. However, different types of equipment are typically used for the different services due to differences in service requirements. This leads to an increase in not only capital expenditures but also operational expenditures. Here we propose using a service adaptive approach as a solution to this problem. We analyze the requirements of a future access network in terms of service, network, and node. We discuss available access network technologies including the passive optical network, single star network. Finally, we present a future service adaptive access/aggregation network and its architecture along with a programmable optical line terminal and optical network unit, discuss its benefit, and describe example services that it would support.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E95-B No.3 pp.696-705
Publication Date
2012/03/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.E95.B.696
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on New/Next Generation Photonic Networking and Future Networks)
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