Converged Optical and Wireless Networking - Challenges for Photonics and Electronics

Overview

Fixed and mobile communications will continue to converge coming years. Amongst other, this is also a goal of the Next Generation Networking initiative adopted by The International Telecommunication Union for the 2005-2008 Study Period. While a general belief is the Internet will support the majority of services, it should be carefully noted to select and separate the services in the network is a necessary condition to assure the Quality of Service and security for the individual ones. This paper proposes to allocate different services with different kinds of traffic and QoS requirements to different wavelengths in a single wavelength-division multiplexed optical network in order do satisfy the requirements of the customer specific to particular service used.