A Scalable Approach for Supporting Streaming Media: Design, Implementation and Experiments
Deepak Kumar Agrawal, Mario Baldi, Michele Corrà, Giorgio Fontana, Guido Marchetto, V. T. Nguyen, Y. Ofek, Danilo Severina, T. H. Truong, Olga Zadedyurina · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications/IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications · 2007
Future Internet traffic will be dominated by on-demand streaming media flows, such as IPTV, 3D/HD video, gaming, virtual reality, and many more. Consequently, future network architectures will need to implementscalable IP packet switchingcapable of offeringpredictable performancesto such applications. Our recent experimental work demonstrated how an IP network can be implemented without "stopping" the serial bit streams. The deployed switch is very simple, scalable to 10-100 terabits per second in a single chassis, and suitable for all optical implementation. The implemented testbed uses only off-the-shelf optical and electronic components and was completed in 9-month.