From the Publisher: Complete and comprehensive coverage of packet switching concepts
and technologies The rapid growth of Internet traffic has spurred a new concentration on IP …

Current estimates and measurements predict that Internet traffic will continue to grow for
many years to come. Driving this growth is the fact that the Internet has moved from a …

With the advent of optical fiber and its large bandwidth, many services, such as packetized
data, voice, and video, are now becoming available on physical transmission lines. The high …

While it is technically pleasing to believe that IP will dominate all forms of communication,
our delight in its elegance is making us overlook its shortcomings. IP is an excellent means …

Telecommunication networks are experiencing a dramatic increase in demand for capacity,
much of it related to the exponential takeup of the Internet and associated services. To …

New network services other than the traditional voice communications between people will
be increasingly bursty in bandwidth needs and will require distributed processing and …

Over the past decade data communications has been revolutionized by a radically new
technology called packet switching. In 1968 virtually all interactive data communication …

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION hat a difference 25 years makes! When this article was written
the telecommunications industry was still a heavily regulated, non-competitive but highly …

From the Publisher: What kind of switch can actually deliver the reduced latency, improved
QoS (quality of service), and greater bandwidth demanded by services such as …

The perspective of optical packet switching in IP dominant backbone and metropolitan
networks Page 1 IEEE Communications Magazine • March 2001 136 The Perspective of …