Impact of the evolution of the metropolitan network on the DSL access architecture Export

@article{citeulike:882447, abstract = {Without any doubt, broadband Internet access is one of the most successful services offered by telecom operators today. It gives the operator the potential of offering many new services to residential and business customers, thereby introducing new revenue streams. ATM today provides a solid solution for this. At the same time, packet-based aggregation technologies -especially Gigabit Ethernet are becoming popular for offering connectivity services to business customers. The success of packet-based aggregation technologies is mainly driven by their lower cost compared to established cell-based solutions. This article addresses a number of requirements that must be fulfilled by the access network if it is used to provide multiple services. It will be shown how MPLS and Ethernet can be used in a broadband access architecture. Both meet many of the identified requirements, but still require some standardization before reaching the same maturity as their cell-based counterpart. It will be shown how MPLS technology can be used to seamlessly link cell and packet-centric networks together. This gives operators the possibility to keep the benefits of their existing cell-based infrastructure and smoothly evolve toward a packet-centric approach when the time is right.}, author = {Ooghe, S. and De Clercq, J. and Van de Voorde, I. and T'joens, Y. and De Jaegher, J.}, citeulike-article-id = {882447}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1179563}, journal = {Communications Magazine, IEEE}, keywords = {adsl, cetech}, number = {2}, pages = {140--145}, posted-at = {2006-10-03 08:58:18}, priority = {2}, title = {Impact of the evolution of the metropolitan network on the DSL access architecture}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1179563}, volume = {41}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:882447 L3 - citeulike-article-id:882447 N2 - Without any doubt, broadband Internet access is one of the most successful services offered by telecom operators today. It gives the operator the potential of offering many new services to residential and business customers, thereby introducing new revenue streams. ATM today provides a solid solution for this. At the same time, packet-based aggregation technologies -especially Gigabit Ethernet are becoming popular for offering connectivity services to business customers. The success of packet-based aggregation technologies is mainly driven by their lower cost compared to established cell-based solutions. This article addresses a number of requirements that must be fulfilled by the access network if it is used to provide multiple services. It will be shown how MPLS and Ethernet can be used in a broadband access architecture. Both meet many of the identified requirements, but still require some standardization before reaching the same maturity as their cell-based counterpart. It will be shown how MPLS technology can be used to seamlessly link cell and packet-centric networks together. This gives operators the possibility to keep the benefits of their existing cell-based infrastructure and smoothly evolve toward a packet-centric approach when the time is right. IS - 2 JF - Communications Magazine, IEEE EP - 145 TI - Impact of the evolution of the metropolitan network on the DSL access architecture VL - 41 SP - 140 KW - adsl KW - cetech AU - Ooghe, S AU - De Clercq, J AU - Van de Voorde, I AU - T'joens, Y AU - De Jaegher, J PY - 2003/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1179563 ER -