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Potential Impact Of Optical Switching Technology On ATM Switches And Routers
White Papers This paper discusses impact of optical switching technology on ATM switches and routers. Today’s ATM switches and routers convert all optical signals arriving at their periphery into electrical signals, perform the switching function entirely in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
How To Choose The Best Router Switching Path For Your Network
White Papers There are a plethora of switching paths available to various Cisco routers and Cisco IOS releases. Whenever possible, you want your routers to be switching in the interrupt context because it's at least an order of a magnitude faster than process...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Applicability Statement For Extensions To RSVP For LSP-Tunnels
White Papers These traffic engineering capabilities can be based on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and can be implemented on label switching routers (LSRs) from different vendors that interoperate using a common signaling and label distribution protocol.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Terabit Switching: A Survey Of Techniques And Current Products
White Papers This survey paper explains the issues in designing terabit routers and the solutions for them. Raw bandwidth has increased by approximately four orders of magnitude whereas capacity of switches and routers have only increased by a factor of 10...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Nortel Puts Intelligent Networking On The Edge
News The MPE 9000 range of routers -- MPE stands for "multiservice provider edge" -- are designed to sit at the edge of a telco's network, replacing existing routers or switches and instantly upgrading the network's ability to support multimedia...
[May 10, 2004, 17:45]
Cisco Moving Into Software?
News It helps drive upgrade cycles for their routers and switches, and there is actual performance gains and cost efficiencies by taking things, such as security, out of silo-ed applications and putting them into a central network.
[January 18, 2005, 16:30]
Cisco Set For Huge Router Launch
News Routers in the Internet today were originally designed for the enterprise," said Jack Wimmer, a vice president of network architecture and advanced technology for US carrier MCI. The largest service providers use core routers to send traffic across...
[May 24, 2004, 13:00]
Hitachi GR2000 Gigabit Routers: MPLS Traffic Engineering Solution
White Papers MPLS label switching allows routers to make forwarding decisions based on simple labels rather than by performing complex route lookups. MPLS allows edge routers to perform traffic engineering by intelligent assignment of labels based on traffic...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Link Bundling In MPLS Traffic Engineering
White Papers In some cases a pair of Label Switching Routers (LSRs) may be connected by several (parallel) links. From the MPLS Traffic Engineering point of view for reasons of scalability it may be desirable to advertise all these links as a single link into...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Optical-Label Switching, MPLS, MPLambdaS, And GMPLS
White Papers Optical-label switching routers seek all-optical contention resolution in time, space, and wavelength domains. Optical-label switching offers seamless integration of data and optical networking while supporting circuit, burst, and packet switching...
[July 10, 2008, 0:36]
IP Multicast Switching Paths
White Papers The purpose of this document is to describe the several possible switching paths available to Cisco routers and switches for the transmission of IP multicast data. The specific switching method used is dependent on the platform.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Virtual Matrix Architecture
White Papers Web infrastructure equipment is fundamentally different from traditional networking devices like switches and routers. While networking devices focus on switching individual frames and packets at ultra-high speeds, Web switches focus on tracking...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Cisco - How To Choose The Best Router Switching Path For Your Network
White Papers There are a plethora of switching paths available to various Cisco routers and Cisco IOS releases. This white paper is an attempt to explain each of the following switching paths so you can make the best decision about which switching path fits...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Switch Virtual Interface For Cisco Integrated Services Routers
White Papers Cisco offers three types of integrated switching modules for the modular Cisco 3800, 2800, and 1800 Series Integrated Services Routers: the 16- and 36-port Cisco EtherSwitch modules, the Cisco EtherSwitch 4- and 9-port High-Speed WAN interface...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Terabit Switches And Routers
White Papers Today, routers with terabit switching capacities have become an essential requirement of the core backbone networks and gigabit routers find their place at the mid-core or even the edge. Just a few years back, no one would have thought that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) And Core Router Testing
White Papers The new breed of routers on the market has been designed to meet more demanding requirements in the core network. Many new core routers also support MPLS. To varying degrees, the routing/switching functions have been implemented in specialized...
[July 10, 2008, 0:19]
MPLS - A Foundation For Service Differentiation By The ISP World
White Papers But soon faster and higher bandwidth ATM switches were outperformed by Internet backbone routers. MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) offers simpler mechanisms for packet-oriented traffic engineering and multiservice functionality with the added...
[July 10, 2008, 0:18]
A Proposed Architecture For Integrating Active Networks And MPLS
White Papers Modern edge routers are typically provided with a multi-layer switching capability to support packet computation services within the network, whereas MPLS employs layer two switching. Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) was originally intended as...
[July 10, 2008, 0:23]
Flow-Slice: A Novel Load-Balancing Scheme For Multi-Path Switching Systems
White Papers Multi-Path Switching Systems (MPS) are intensively used in the state-of-the-art core routers. One of the most intractable issues is how to load-balance traffic across its multiple paths while not disturbing the intra-flow packet orders.
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Tech Paper
White Papers Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) was originally presented as a way of improving the forwarding speed of routers but is now emerging as a crucial standard technology that offers new capabilities for large scale IP networks.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
