The 21st Century Intelligent Network

Tony Li, Carl DeSousa

2-May-12

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Fundamentals
Profitability drives the new network
New revenues through new applications
Video telephony & conferencing Pervasive broadband access HDTV distribution, VOD, gaming FTTP

Decreased expenses

Capital efficiency Operational efficiency

Focus today on network architectures

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Optical Switching: A Pragmatic Look

Optical switching can decrease switching costs New switching layers have associated management costs Demand from full lambda user applications is low Greater need for optical switching in trunking

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An Example
Partial mesh topologies result in transit switching Large traffic aggregates can economically be optically switched at transit points How can we optimally use the lambda topology? Can we provide traffic engineering at the lambda level?

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Traffic Engineering
Commonly used in telephony networks Successful usage in IP networks with MPLS/TE Can we extend this cleanly to the lambda level? Inputs:
Node-to-node traffic matrix at the trunk level, time variant Topology, capacity and costs

Desired results: (how do we set up switches)

Support current offered traffic load Optimal assignments of lambdas to minimize global costs Dynamic recovery to address failures
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Approaches to dynamic recovery

Pre-computation
For each possible network failure, compute alternative optimal routing Computationally intensive: scales linearly with number of elements Does not reasonably support multiple failures

Dynamic computation
Intelligence in the network computes recovery routing Suboptimal computation unless done with global data Slower recovery times Can adapt to multiple failures easily
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Hybrid computation
Combine pre-computation and dynamic computation
Pre-compute most significant recovery options for single failures
Ignore low-priority recovery Ignore multiple failures

Intelligence in the network to dynamically compute remaining cases Centralized computation to recover global optimality for the longer term

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Benefits and constraints

Smooth improvement of efficiency over time
Pre-computation provides fast recovery for covered cases Dynamic computation provides coverage for other cases Long term optimization eventually reaches maximal efficiency

Effective dynamic computation requires peer model optical network

IP layer must know about optical topology and capacity Optical layer must know about traffic priorities Overlay model abstracts optical topology & capacity

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