… What if we were to continue with the current transport network development programs as …
mixed line rate networks in which a range of bit rates is carried on the same optical fibres. Much …

… in elastic optical networks. We begin with the basic concept of the elastic optical network
and its unique characteristics, and then the architecture of the elastic optical network and its …

… elastic optical networks. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we discuss the
advantages of, and challenges associated with, elastic optical networks. … elastic optical networks, …

… In this article we describe one of the most exciting future directions of optical networks. We
start by motivating the transition from fixed grid networks to elastic optical networks. Once the …

… Finally, academy- and industry-driven research on elastic optical networks (EON) has …
elasticity against time-varying traffic. As a consequence of the variety of features involved, network …

… optical transport networks implementing the elastic optical network technology in the context
of network … new network services, including cloud computing and content-oriented applica- …

Elastic optical networks (EONs) have been receiving extensive attention because of their
inherent flexibility and the efficiency with which they allocate fiber-bandwidth. For an EON, …

… optical networking. We identify the key building blocks for enabling elastic optical networks
to provide desired performance improvements over static optical networks. We examine the …

… -speed network design. To promote an efficient and scalable implementation of elastic
optical … This book makes key contributions to the development of elastic optical networks (EONs), …

… networks. In addition, EONs can be easily integrated with the software defined optical network
(… We will refer to such a network as a software defined elastic optical network (SDEON) in …