Computer Networking: Recent Advances, Trends, and Issues

This talk covers:

• Life Cycles of Technologies
• Hype Cycles of Technologies
• Industry Growth
• Traffic vs Capacity Growth
• Is Internet Traffic Growing?
• Total U.S. Internet Traffic
• Trend: Ethernet Everywhere
• Networking: Failures vs Successes
• Requirements for Success
• Ethernet Developments: 1995-1999
• Trend: LAN - WAN Convergence
• SONET Functions
• SONET: 2001 Developments
• Resilient Packet Rings
• Ethernet: Future Possibilities
• Ethernet in the First Mile
• Power over Ethernet
• Storage: New Traffic Demands
• Telecom vs Data Networks
• Trend: IP Everywhere
• Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Issue: Control and Data Plane Separation
• IP-Based Control Plane
• GMPLS: Layered View
• Optical Networking Developments
• Fiber Access Thru Sewer Tubes (FAST)

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