It seems that the goal is to apply IP packets right onto the lambda windows. But without any ability to provide IP QoS, it seems like a point of diminishing return. Hop-by-hop routing is on its way out....and not soon enough. As for reinventing the virtual circuit, I don't think we can get much lower than this. -tm Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com> wrote
** Disclaimer; I work for a vendor: PLURIS, but this question concerns a personal curiosity that I have about OXCs. **
Disclaimer: I do not work for a vendor: PLURIS
I also don't see much NSP participation in the relevant standards bodies about signaling in optical networks.
Probably because the said standards bodies (and on-demand fiber capacity allocation in general) have little relevance to the NSPs and Internet backbones in general?
--vadim
PS I keep wondering why people keep reinventing virtual circuits.