The Role of ASON and GMPLS for the Bandwidth Trading Market
Keywords
ASON; WDM
Abstract
Bandwidth services as they have evolved over the last years can increasingly be seen as a commodity. Multiple network operators have comparable offerings and compete for customers. This fuelled the foundation of bandwidth brokerage and bandwidth trading companies in the late 90s. Unfortunately, their business models where not very successful in the past. Besides the overall economic weakness at the moment we identify some generic and technical reasons for this. Moreover we show that with novel automation technologies like GMPLS or ASON/ASTN some of these problems can be alleviated. Possible operational models show how future bandwidth brokers or traders could be organised.
Year
2004
Reference entry
Iselt, A.; Kirstädter, A.; Chahine, R. The Role of ASON and GMPLS for the Bandwidth Trading Market
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE2004), Setubal, August 2004